Regular reminder to self
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@shana Well the problem with this is, the series may or may not converge.
But the program does not terminate.
So the program cannot answer *either*, so it's not "just a for loop"
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I can be as nitpicky as you like, and point out that the sigma also lacks information on the stopping conditions, and it is only by unspoken shared understanding that mathematicians agree on what the infinite summation is doing/what information they're getting out of it, and you can encode that unspoken shared understanding in the for-loop by coding up a stop condition when a convergence is detected.
But, again, not the point of Freya's original point, nor of my posting of it.
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@tautology That might have been why my high school math teacher made me promise I would not go into maths in exchange for a passing grade.
I ended up in computers instead which totally has no maths whatsoever!
(in hindsight, not the best maths teacher)
@shana Mine told me outright that I would fail A-level math[s] (in the UK, the exam you take at 18 before you leave school).
More fool him: I scraped a decent grade and have now (decades later) done math[s] modules at degree level.
Unless, that was his plan all along, to try and shame me into putting some effort in?
