[Python-3000] range() issues

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> BTW, if you're looking for a term describing range() that's better
>  than set or sequence, how about "series"? It's a mathematical word
>  that matches pretty exactly.

No, mathematical series is the sum of a sequence:
<http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Series.html>. An alternative to
"sequence" would be "progression."


> (More accurately, I believe it's an  algebraic series.)

It is an "arithmetic progression":
<http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ArithmeticProgression.html>.