• geometric series is a series in which the ratio of successive adjacent terms is constant. In other words, the sum of consecutive terms of a geometric...
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    the initial value. The sum of a geometric progression's terms is called a geometric series. The nth term of a geometric sequence with initial value a =...
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  • arithmetico-geometric series is a sum of terms that are the elements of an arithmetico-geometric sequence. Arithmetico-geometric sequences and series arise in various...
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    }}x^{n}.} The Taylor series of any polynomial is the polynomial itself. The Maclaurin series of ⁠1/1 − x⁠ is the geometric series 1 + x + x 2 + x 3 + ⋯...
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  • In mathematics, an infinite geometric series of the form ∑ n = 1 ∞ a r n − 1 = a + a r + a r 2 + a r 3 + ⋯ {\displaystyle \sum _{n=1}^{\infty...
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  • {\displaystyle n} th truncation error of the infinite series. An example of a convergent series is the geometric series 1 + 1 2 + 1 4 + 1 8 + ⋯ + 1 2 k + ⋯ . {\displaystyle...
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    In mathematics, the geometric mean is a mean or average which indicates a central tendency of a finite collection of positive real numbers by using the...
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  • power series as being like "polynomials of infinite degree", although power series are not polynomials in the strict sense. The geometric series formula...
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  • generalization of a geometric series of real or complex numbers to a geometric series of operators. The generalized initial term of the series is the identity...
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  • "values", one can justify that the series converges to 1/2. Treating Grandi's series as a divergent geometric series and using the same algebraic methods...
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    _{n=1}^{\infty }\left(1-(2i)^{n-1}\right)z^{-n}.} This series can be derived using geometric series as before, or by performing polynomial long division...
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    the second part of a geometric series. Archimedes dissects the area into infinitely many triangles whose areas form a geometric progression. He then computes...
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  • Geometry (redirect from Geometric)
    physical world and its model provided by Euclidean geometry; presently a geometric space, or simply a space is a mathematical structure on which some geometry...
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    In probability theory and statistics, the geometric distribution is either one of two discrete probability distributions: The probability distribution...
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    exponential and geometric sequences. It can also be used to illustrate sigma notation. When expressed as exponents, the geometric series is: 20 + 21 + 22...
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  • Matrix polynomials can be used to sum a matrix geometrical series as one would an ordinary geometric series, S = I + A + A 2 + ⋯ + A n {\displaystyle S=I+A+A^{2}+\cdots...
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    proved (for any integer t {\displaystyle t} ) by using the formula for geometric series: (using y = 1 − x {\displaystyle y=1-x} ) t = 1 + 1 + ⋯ + 1 ≥ 1 + y...
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    In geometry, the geometric median of a discrete point set in a Euclidean space is the point minimizing the sum of distances to the sample points. This...
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    In mathematics, the inequality of arithmetic and geometric means, or more briefly the AM–GM inequality, states that the arithmetic mean of a list of non-negative...
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  • integer values of α. The negative binomial series includes the case of the geometric series, the power series 1 1 − x = ∑ n = 0 ∞ x n {\displaystyle {\frac...
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  • geometric may also refer to: Geometric distribution of probability theory and statistics Geometric series, a mathematical series with a constant ratio between...
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  • geometric algebra (also known as a Clifford algebra) is an algebra that can represent and manipulate geometrical objects such as vectors. Geometric algebra...
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    1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + ⋯ (category Geometric series)
    as a geometric series with the common ratio 1. For some other divergent geometric series, including Grandi's series with ratio −1, and the series 1 + 2...
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    sum of the arithmetic and geometric series as early as the 4th century BCE. Ācārya Bhadrabāhu uses the sum of a geometric series in his Kalpasūtra in 433 BCE...
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    geometric series, with the initial value being a = C, the multiplicative factor being 1 + i, with n terms. Applying the formula for geometric series,...
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    1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ⋯ (category Geometric series)
    infinite series ⁠1/2⁠ + ⁠1/4⁠ + ⁠1/8⁠ + ⁠1/16⁠ + ··· is an elementary example of a geometric series that converges absolutely. The sum of the series is 1...
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  • different series, marked the first appearance of infinite series other than the geometric series in mathematics. However, this achievement fell into obscurity...
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  • _{n=1}^{\infty }2^{n-n\alpha }=\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }2^{(1-\alpha )n}} (ii) is a geometric series with ratio 2 ( 1 − α ) {\displaystyle 2^{(1-\alpha )}} . (ii) is finitely...
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  • I. Motomura developed the geometric series model based on benthic community data in a lake. Within the geometric series each species' level of abundance...
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  • 000 = 0, and so ...999 = −1. Another derivation uses a geometric series. The infinite series implied by "...999" does not converge in the real numbers...
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