[Wolves] Yahoo! upgrade

sparkes sparkes at westmids.biz
Wed May 25 08:51:38 BST 2005


Stuart Langridge wrote:

>On 5/24/05, Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver at mavit.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
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>>        1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... < 2
>>
>>In other words, you can carry on adding these fractions for as long as you
>>like but you'll never get to 2.
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>I suspect it will be more like 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + ... which
>does tend to infinity, but infinitely slowly ;)
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don't they both do exactly the same thing?  They are both an infinite
crawl towards 2 but can never (really) reach it.

>Aq.
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>

sparkes
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