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Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

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* Although this proposition is necessary for the summation of an infinite number of terms of a Geometrical Progression with the common ratio less than unity, I believe there is only one English Text Book (Chrystal’s Alffebra) which contains a demonstration, and unfortunately that is far more difficult than it need be.

Euclid proves this in the first proposition of the Tenth Book, for