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Re: Easy question: Infinite Series, Infinite Sequences

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• Subject: [mg10366] Re: [mg10339] Easy question: Infinite Series, Infinite Sequences
• From: jpk@max.mpae.gwdg.de
• Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 04:10:00 -0500

 I haven't been able to find a command which
> outputs a list of the first n terms of some arbitrary sequence,
> however. For instance, I am looking for something like:
> 
> (input)    ListSequence[1/2^k, {k, 0, 5}] (output)    {1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8,
> 1/16}

Hi Brandon,
 
 Table[1/2^k,{k,0,5}]
 
 will do what You want.
 
 Hope that helps
 Jens