Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences · Problem 1.15
INFINITE SERIES, POWER SERIES — Mary Boas
Mathematics — Methods · geometric-series
Problem
Some copying machines will make reduced copies. Suppose you copy a page 8 inches wide and it comes out 43 as wide. Then you copy this, and so on indefinitely. How far will the original and all the copies reach if you lay them out side by side on a long table?