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Question from Jatin, a student:

3-3+3-3+3.........upto infinite terms = ?

Hi Jatin.

As you can see, an even number of terms has the sum of 0 and an odd number of terms has the sum of 3.

Is infinity even or odd? It's neither.

So we can that this series does not converge.

Cheers,
Stephen.

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