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I found the "trick" solution to Unwanted Expansion to be unsatisfying: unless I am mistaken, it assumes that all of the values must be positive integers, which

by chias 8y ago

I found the "trick" solution to Unwanted Expansion to be unsatisfying: unless I am mistaken, it assumes that all of the values must be positive integers, which was not stated as being the case.

zem 8y ago
no, it's about the structure of the expression expanding indefinitely. if that happened then if all the values were positive then the value of the expression would also tend to infinity
- chias 8y ago
  Ah, thank you for clearing up my misconception! That makes a lot more sense.