/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2119392
It's the infimum of the set of such sums. Even if the set of such sums included divergent ones (it doesn't) they obviously can't be infimums as long as there are convergent ones.

>>2119433
It *is* clearly written. Partitions of intervals only include a finite number of subintervals, so the sum is in fact an addition of a finite number of terms in each case.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_an_interval
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infimum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremum

>>1765158

Agreed, space exploration is a trickle in the bucket compared to military spending and other useless unnecessary international crap. Hell most of the military functions and depends on shit invented and discovered during the space race for fuck's sake.

pic related btw, do you realize how many millions of dollars were involved in that photograph?!