If you have any math knowledge at all, this wording implies an infinite sum or sequence, which does move...

This post was edited by Taxidermy on Apr 28 2010 05:17pm

Lol I'm surprised this hasn't been locked. This is a debate in the homework sections.

If you are going to be condescending like that, it would really help to be right. Any infinite series is identically an extended real number. I think you may be confusing what the object is with the method of computing what it is: i.e. as the limit of partial sums. The infinite series SUM_{n,1,infty} 9/10^n converges uniformly to 1 in the partial sums. The series is therefore is identically one. It definitely isn't moving.

stopped reading there

if you write something like sum from 1 to N (...) and then you are increasing N, it does make sense to say the sum is "moving"

you only have so many ways to try to describe something abstract

This post was edited by Taxidermy on Apr 28 2010 07:21pm

The sequence of partial sums is "moving". The sum itself is not.

and?

This post was edited by Taxidermy on Apr 28 2010 07:33pm

An infinite sum is a number.

uh huh, i clearly meant partial sums

ah, but mathematicians hate it when you say "clearly _____ "

This post was edited by Taxidermy on Apr 28 2010 07:35pm

If that is actually the case, then your response to ElusiveNeutrino makes no sense to me. He said that the infinite sum representation is a number which does not move. Why would you respond that he has "no math knowledge" at all when what he said is completely and unambiguously correct?