HackerWhat does it feel like to invent math?
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Starting with partial sums that seem to approach one, the speaker asks what “approach” must require. For any chosen tolerance the tail must stay within it, rather than merely visiting it once.
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Retrospectively, this might seem like the clear way to solidify what you mean by approach, but as a first-time endeavor, it's actually incredibly clever.no matter how small the distance you choose, at some point down the list, all the numbers start falling within that distance of x.