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diverge



If a sequence doesn't converge it is said to diverge. This can be if it goes to infinity, or if it simply cycles between two or more values without ever staying on one of them. For example, the sequences: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ... and 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, ... are both divergent.


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