Answer
There are at least two reasons:
- It took a fair amount of typing to deal with the first ten terms; can you
imagine typing in 100 or 1000 terms?
- Even if we did type in 1000 terms, it wouldn't tell us anything about the
value of the series as n approaches infinity.
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Joseph L. Zachary
Hamlet Project
Department of Computer Science
University of Utah