Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Featuring Tom Crawford. Check out opportunities with Jane Street at janestreet.com/join-jane-street (episode sponsor)
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Tom discusses a series that, by one definition, has an unexpected property.

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Thanks to Gavin Jared Bala for assistance with the calculation of other convergent p-adic sequences.

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