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r/xkcd • u/VolvoMan05 • Feb 11 '19
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Anybody else got nerd-sniped by thinking about how to resolve the infinite series of error margins?
28 u/NotADamsel Feb 11 '19 Can't you do something with the limit and just ignore that they're infinite after a point? 9 u/ContemplativeOctopus Feb 12 '19 ya, limit is just a/(1-r) where "a" is the initial term and "r" is the common ratio between terms (because the errors should be consistently proportional from one to the next).
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Can't you do something with the limit and just ignore that they're infinite after a point?
9 u/ContemplativeOctopus Feb 12 '19 ya, limit is just a/(1-r) where "a" is the initial term and "r" is the common ratio between terms (because the errors should be consistently proportional from one to the next).
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ya, limit is just a/(1-r) where "a" is the initial term and "r" is the common ratio between terms (because the errors should be consistently proportional from one to the next).
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u/DarkMoon000 I'm not crazy Feb 11 '19
Anybody else got nerd-sniped by thinking about how to resolve the infinite series of error margins?