User:Skeptical scientist/scratchwork
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It's also incorrect.
is indeed a geometric series, but the sum of this geometric series is not
by definition, but because of the definition of the limit of a series, and because the partial sums are given by
. There is a reason for the middle equality, and it's not the definition of a geometric series, as the poster said, but rather a fundamental property of limits.
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