Name: What Is a Sequence?
Uploaded: 2023-12-08T12:32:05.755Z
Channel: House of Math
Description: A sequence is a list of items, called elements, with a particular order. This video explains the definition, and looks at how sequences are usually written.

If you've seen sets you might ask: What makes a sequence different from a set? For sets, the elements:

This is very different from a sequence. Especially point 1. The whole point of sequences is that they have an order! They’d be pretty rubbish otherwise.

A sequence is a list of items, called elements, with a particular order. This video explains the definition, and looks at how sequences are usually written.

A sequence is a list of items, called elements, with a particular order

A sequence with a limited number of elements

A sequence which doesn't end, it has an infinite number of elements

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