Bender_on_Fire

@Bender_on_Fire@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t see the pattern either and had to look it up. Apparently, you can rewrite 1 + 1/(1+2) + 1/(1+2+3)+… as 2(1 - 1/2 + 1/2 - 1/3 +…+1/n - 1/(n + 1)) = 2(1 - 1/(n + 1))

  From there, the limit of 2 is obvious, but I guess you just have to build up intuition with infinite sums to see the reformulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Net Ratings by Quarter⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can add the Lakers to that. I guess it’s natural for scoring to distribute over the quarters since being behind incentivizes playing your best players for longer and hustle in general. In addition, if you know your opponents are slow starters for example, part of the game plan might be trying to exploit that which would make it a self enforcing feedback loop.