5As strange as it sounds, you were probably introduced to infinite sums in the 4th or 5th grade! (Although your teacher didn’t tell you!) Remember when you learned that Image with the decimal extending forever with an infinite number of 3s? This is actually the infinite sum Image and amazingly, it adds up to (or converges to) exactly Image.

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