Teaching Myself Calculus at Sixty-Five

Re:Teaching Myself Calculus at Sixty-Five by alexk307 on Saturday July 09, 2022 @05:19PM (#32039417)

There will probably be a series of comments like this. There must be a limit but it could be infinite.

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Re:Teaching Myself Calculus at Sixty-Five by x86x87 on Saturday July 09, 2022 @05:22PM (#32039441)

You're assuming the comments will converge. But what if we cannot find a vicinity where all the bits can be located in?

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Re:Teaching Myself Calculus at Sixty-Five by xyzwave on Sunday July 10, 2022 @07:04AM (#32043596)

At this point we may be tangent to the comment’s original arc.

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Re:Teaching Myself Calculus at Sixty-Five by hiptobecubic on Sunday July 10, 2022 @08:50AM (#32044245)

Epsilon.

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Re:Teaching Myself Calculus at Sixty-Five by euroderf on Sunday July 10, 2022 @04:12PM (#32048504)

We can state with certainty that the number of comments is monotonically increasing.

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Re:Teaching Myself Calculus at Sixty-Five by x86x87 on Sunday July 10, 2022 @05:11PM (#32049078)

the fact that the numbers of terms (errrm... comments) in a series is growing is no guarantee that the it will converge

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