Chapter 10: Sequences and the Binomial Theorem
In this section, we introduce sequences which are an important class of functions whose domains are, more or less, the set of natural numbers. Before we get to far ahead of ourselves, let's look at what the term `sequence' means mathematically. Informally, we can think of a sequence as an infinite list of numbers. For example, consider the sequence
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