Subject: Ancient divergent series
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:28:07 -0500
From: John Kim

In the book, "A History of Pi", a reference is made to the following problem:

What is the value of the following infinite series?

1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + .....

What is the value and why? The book doesn't give the value or the approach for the solution which would normally be fine except that I can't figure it out! :)

Thank you for your time.

-John

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