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Strictly speaking (from a mathematical point of view), this task is asking for the "sum of a sequence"; the term "series" refers instead to the list of partial sums of such a sequence, and you're not summing the series, because it's already summed <i>en passant</i>. You can google for "series vs sequence" for more on this. While "series" and "sequence" are often confused in common parlance, I don't see much harm in changing this task to a more accurate name from the viewpoint of the mathematicians. (I guess I'm a bit sensitive on this subject because at one point I had to go through all the Perl 6 docs and change all occurrences of "series operator" to "sequence operator".) --[[User:TimToady|TimToady]] 18:37, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
:Agreed. I rephrased the intro accordingly. Hope it's ok. Maybe the title should be changed as well, but the current one is not so bad, providing a little justification is given in the intro.--[[User:Grondilu|Grondilu]] 19:08, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
:You could move [[Sum of a series]] to [[Sum of a sequence]] and have [[Sum of a series]] redirect to it to cover all bases? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 20:24, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
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