[Wolves] Yahoo! upgrade

Stuart Langridge stuart.langridge at gmail.com
Wed May 25 08:56:39 BST 2005


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

No.

aquarius at giles:~$ python -c "print 1 + 0.5 + 0.333 + 0.25"
2.083

:-)

Aq.



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