From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!turtleva!ken
Newsgroups: net.math
Title: Re: 1=/= .999...
Article-I.D.: turtleva.139
Posted: Tue Feb  1 21:49:47 1983
Received: Thu Feb  3 00:54:57 1983
References: rocheste.522

It was asserted that the following series converged to 1/4.  Hogwash!

	S = 1/2 - 1/2 + 1/2 - 1/2 + ...

It is a divergent series.  Even though it is an alternating series,
the terms all have the same magnitude.  Group adjacent terms pairwise
and they cancel out.  It is like a square wave which DOES NOT CONVERGE!