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The Limit of a Sequence - Massachusetts Institute of ...

But many important sequences are not monotone—numerical methods, for in-stance, often lead to sequences which approach the desired answer alternately from above and below. For such sequences, the methods we used in Chapter 1 won’t work. For instance, the sequence 1.1, .9, 1.01, .99, 1.001, .999, ...

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