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WEB SIGMAA

the Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of American on the use of the World-Wide Web in mathematics instruction. Links:

WEB SIGMAA invites all interested MAA members to join and to participate. For questions and comments please write us at sigmaa@math.ucla.edu.

Kirby Baker, Chair of the Executive Committee
Jeff Feuer, Vice Chair for Membership


Summing a complex geometric series

(requires Java installed and enabled)

View this applet with a Java-enabled browser.

The series is 1 + z + z 2 + z 3 + ... . The mouse pointer gives z .
Line segments represent the terms of the power series (the powers of z).
The terms are added by being attached end-to-end.
The yellow dot is the sum, if the series is convergent.