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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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