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You still seem confused. What you have is not a converging series, period. You just have a list of successively-closer ratios. A series (in math) is the sum of the terms in a sequence (which itself is a discrete function). You don't have a discrete function, and you definitely don't have the sum of anything.



He does have a converging sequence, though. Many people don't understand the technical (but obvious to mathematicians) distinction between sequence and series.


Thanks Colin, sequence - that was the term I needed, and my intention.




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