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Arithmetic progression is when you get to the next term of a sequence by ADDING a fixed quantity (called the common difference d) to the previous term. Examples are -3, -1, 1, 3, 5, ...,(d = 2) and 3/2, -3/2, -9/2, -15/2,....(here d = -3).
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