It has been suggested to be Sumerian, from the city of Shuruppak.
The general form of a geometric sequence isĪ, a r, a r 2, a r 3, a r 4, … ,Ī clay tablet from the Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia, MS 3047, contains a geometric progression with base 3 and multiplier 1/2. is a geometric sequence with common ratio 1/2.Įxamples of a geometric sequence are powers r k of a fixed non-zero number r, such as 2 k and 3 k. is a geometric progression with common ratio 3. In mathematics, a geometric progression, also known as a geometric sequence, is a sequence of non-zero numbers where each term after the first is found by multiplying the previous one by a fixed, non-zero number called the common ratio.
The first block is a unit block and the dashed line represents the infinite sum of the sequence, a number that it will forever approach but never touch: 2, 3/2, and 4/3 respectively. Mathematical sequence of numbers Diagram illustrating three basic geometric sequences of the pattern 1( r n−1) up to 6 iterations deep.
