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When is 0.999... equal to 1?
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Carsten Schneider
RISC, J. Kepler University Linz, A 4040 Linz
In this talk I will illustrate how the summation package Sigma can assist in simplifying multi-sum expressions. More precisely, I show how a doubly infinite sum, numerically evaluated at between 0.999 and 1.001, turns out not to equal 1, but to be a sum of products of values of the zeta function.
Date received: March 22, 2005
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