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document.write( "It means that they talk about the sum of this geometric progression\r\n" );
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document.write( "a*r + a*r ^3 + a*r^5 + a*r^7 + . . . \r\n" );
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document.write( "which is taken over all odd powers of \"r\", and this sum does converge to 3.\r\n" );
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