CAUCHY SEQUENCE


Meaning of CAUCHY SEQUENCE in English

[Cau.chy sequence] n [Augustin-Louis Cauchy d. 1857 Fr. mathematician] (ca. 1949): a sequence of elements in a metric space such that for any positive number no matter how small there exists a term in the sequence for which the distance between any two terms beyond this term is less than the arbitrarily small number

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