If every term is replaced with its absolute value, the resulting series diverges: Then, by the Riemann rearrangement theorem, for every real value, the series can be rearranged so as to sum to that value; and other rearrangements of the series diverge to $\infty$, and to $-\infty $
She is unlikely to be asked, as Armando Iannucci OBE was, about an apparent rearrangement of her attitudes; or why anyone, other than a helicopter pilot, would risk being awarded a prize by Prince William; or what, exactly, has engendered this unlikely respect for a selection process that just forgot all about volunteers working with Ebola patients.
One difference could be a rearrangement inside the reform movement.
On September 3rd Algerian dailies reported a significant rearrangement of the security bureaucracy: three key directorates were removed from the supervision of the intelligence services and placed in control of the army.
The area above the well is a worryingly small patch of ocean in which to have three separate vessels sucking up oil and gas, some of which has to be flared off, a flotilla of service vessels of various sorts and a pair of drilling rigs as well: assuring the safety of these cheek-by-jowl vessels means avoiding hasty rearrangement.
In the case of Dr Yin's beads, it is the rearrangement of the particles' microstructures that produces the pertinent detail.To make their spheres Dr Yin and his colleagues stir iron-oxide particles into a liquid polymer resin, which is then dispersed in oil.
This is because the anatomical rearrangement that came with the evolution of an upright stance makes childbirth more hazardous for women than for most other female mammals.
What is needed is concerted international pressure on Mr Karzai to accede to a constitutional rearrangement that decentralises power away from Kabul.AfPak backtrackThe third element, "partnership with Pakistan", is similarly defective.
Mr Ma himself has become a surrogate for feelings about the mainland, having forged groundbreaking business links, including a partial free-trade pact, in the biggest rearrangement of relations with China proper since 1949.Mr Ma passed the test, but only just.
But that would be to presume a modicum of goodwill and trust between the parties, without which no resourceful rearrangement of cartography can take place.Both are markedly absent.
Although it is reported that he will soon name his cousin David de Rothschild, chairman of Rothschild & Cie Banque, the family's French bank, as his successor, Sir Evelyn says only that "we are having a rearrangement" and that David will take on a bigger role.
