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The Teaching of Limits and Convergence to Scholarship Candidates. (Continued.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

W P Milne
W P Milne*
Affiliation:
Clifton College.
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8. The following application of Dedekind’s principle is the most important one in practice.

If s1, s2, s3, sn … be a sequence of positive rational nucmbers which steadily increase and never become greater than a given positive number K, then the given sequence approximates to a definite limit, K being rational.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 7 , Issue 102 , January 1913 , pp. 1 - 3
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1908

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