{"id":23481,"date":"2017-09-08T17:24:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T17:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=23481"},"modified":"2017-09-08T17:25:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T17:25:17","slug":"math-ideas-about-infinity-how-an-infinite-series-can-have-a-finite-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-ideas-about-infinity-how-an-infinite-series-can-have-a-finite-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"Math: ideas about infinity: how an infinite series can have a finite sum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring math, you realize that infinite series can be hard to visualize. The tutor offers perspective.<\/h1>\n<p>An infinite series is a sum of terms that never end. An example is a repeating decimal, such as 0.2222222&#8230;.., which means<\/p>\n<p>0.2222222&#8230;. = 0.2 + 0.02 + 0.002 + 0.0002 + 0.00002 + &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps surprising, at first, is that a sum may be of infinitely many terms, but have finite value. Yet, most people will agree that<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\">0.2222222&#8230;. < 0.3\n<br \/>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, you realize that infinite series can be hard to visualize. The tutor offers perspective. An infinite series is a sum of terms that never end. An example is a repeating decimal, such as 0.2222222&#8230;.., which means 0.2222222&#8230;. = &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-ideas-about-infinity-how-an-infinite-series-can-have-a-finite-sum\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math: ideas about infinity: how an infinite series can have a finite sum<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2483],"class_list":["post-23481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","tag-how-can-an-infinite-series-have-a-finite-sum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23481"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23510,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23481\/revisions\/23510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}