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A visualization of why 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 +...
With this method you won't be able to tell converging sequences from diverging ones. Suppose I used your circle and put in the first hundred terms of the harmonic sequence (divided by 10 or so, to fit in the unit area).
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