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Sämtliche schriften und briefe series VII volume 3
Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed)
p 798



Date: June 1676 (?)

Translated from the Latin



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LEIBNIZ: ON CONVERGING SERIES


[A VII 3, 798]

     If one supposes the value of a sector—that is, of a converging series of polygons—given in numbers, no mortal can know whether or not it is composed in the same way from converging terms. Therefore, it does not even serve as a criterion.


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