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Limit of a sequence

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  Limit of a sequence 40 languages Article Talk Read Edit View history From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the general mathematical concept, see  Limit (mathematics) . This article  needs additional citations for  verification .  Please help  improve this article  by  adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:   "Limit of a sequence"  –  news   ·   newspapers   ·   books   ·   scholar   ·   JSTOR   ( May 2017 )  ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) The sequence given by the perimeters of regular  n -sided  polygons  that circumscribe the  unit circle  has a limit equal to the perimeter of the circle, i.e.  2 � � . The corresponding sequence for inscribed polygons has the same limit. n n  sin(1/ n ) 1 0.841471 2 0.958851 ... 10 0.998334 ... 100 0.999983 As the positive  integer   �  becomes larger and larger, the value  � ⋅ sin ⁡ ( 1 � )  becomes arbitrarily close to  1 . We say that "the