P-adic Series Convergence
Visualize why (p-1) + (p-1)p + (p-1)p² + ... = -1 in the p-adics. Euclidean size explodes, while p-adic distance to -1 shrinks as p^{-N}.
Log10 scale comparison
Partial sums
| N | S_N = sum_{k=0..N-1}(p-1)p^k | log10 |S_N| (Euclidean) | |S_N - (-1)|_p |
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