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Comment author: shminux 16 December 2011 12:03:37AM *  1 point [-]

If they are infinite, then there should at least be a well-defined way to take a limit (or one of its generalizations), which amounts to nearly the same thing, constructing a sequence of ratios of finite numbers and proving convergence.