Math was, as usual, boring me today, so I jumped right into doodling. I began to draw elephants, and started to play around with the idea of just how many elephants would fit on my notebook page. As I kept drawing, I concluded that if I kept drawing the elephants smaller and smaller across the page, the number of elephants would be infinite. I repeated a similar process with camels, and then eventually moved to figures that didn't assume the shape of mammals, like squares and triangles. I discovered that, with any given shape, an infinitely smaller number of circles will fit inside. This is a fractal process, because no matter where you zoom in on the shape, it will always look the same and will always be infinitely growing smaller. The irony of the matter was that today's math subject was the sums of infinite numbers, which was exactly what I had been doodling. Just how much does the infinite number of elephants stomping across my page equal? I realized that they are continually growing closer and closer to one. This can be applied using camels, or less interestingly, triangles, squares, and other various shapes that circles can fill.
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