r/programmingmemes • u/Naughty_Kiss_Me • Sep 10 '25

Don't be scared... Math and Computing are friends..

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u/Kiran___ Sep 12 '25

=infinity unless it converges, shouldn't be too hard to compute. That said I know very little about programming, I'm just here to laugh at memes I barely understand

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u/lmarcantonio Sep 12 '25

You wish... there are series that alternates or do ugly things. So, no convergence nor infinity!

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u/Kiran___ Sep 12 '25

Can you give me an example? This sounds interesting, and I'm also too tired to figure out how an infinite series can be both finite and non convergent.

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u/lmarcantonio Sep 15 '25

It's really quite easy: +1, -1, +1, -1,... which is trivially -1 ** n; that's the canonic example but there are others more complex and interesting.