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Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies
Volume 23, 2012 - Issue 1
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Geometric Series via Probability

Barry TesmanCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 45-49 | Received 29 Jun 2011, Accepted 09 May 2012, Published online: 18 Jan 2013
 
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Abstract

We describe a probability theory approach to find the sum of a convergent geometric series.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The author would like to thank the referees for their extremely helpful comments.

Notes

1The “trick” is to subtract t · S n from Sn .

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