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From: carl@fivegl.co.nz (Carl Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Disaster! I lie through my teeth... (was Re: continuous vs discrete)
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.215907.15884@fivegl.co.nz>
Date: 14 Apr 91 21:59:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: fivegl.1991Apr14.215907.15884
Reply-To: carl@fivegl.co.nz (Carl Reynolds)
Organization: 5GL International Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
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In an earlier article I wrote

>And, of course, any decreasing (as happens in our world) sequence of X(n)
                 ^^^
>will eventually converge to a value.
>This is the theory of limits, where an infinite sequence converges to a finite
>sum. ...

Don't believe this because it isn't true. SOME decreasing sequences converge
to finite sums. Others don't, as someone kindly reminded me through e-mail.
It depends on the rate of decrease - I'm sure you all know this.
I must have been drunk.

Apologies for being such a .

Carl Reynolds
5GL International Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
carl@fivegl.co.nz