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Bounded sequence with vanishing increments need not converge (an​=sinn​)

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The sequence is bounded and ∣an+1​−an​∣≤n+1​−n​→0 by the mean value theorem. Nevertheless, along the integer parts of (π/2+2πj)2 its terms tend to one, and along the integer parts of (3π/2+2πj)2 they tend to minus one. The square root rounding error is O(1/j). Thus a bounded sequence with vanishing successive increments need not be a convergent sequence.

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