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2.6.3 Infinity Unveiled

  A good intuition for the properties of tex2html_wrap_inline32375 may be formed by considering tex2html_wrap_inline32375 to be an ever growing, unbounded sequence of rationals, such as:

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Formally, tex2html_wrap_inline32507 is equal to tex2html_wrap_inline32375 if

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where j and k are integers. An intuition for tex2html_wrap_inline32377 may be similarly formed.

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Jeff TupperMarch 1996