Example: The sequence does not converge, but we can extract a convergent subsequence.
Since | sin(x) | < 4, the sequence is clearly bounded above and below (the sequence is also, of course, bounded by 1).

Therefore, using the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem, there exists a convergent subsequence.

However, it is nearly impossible to actually list this subsequence. The Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem does guaranty the existence of that subsequence, but says nothing about how to obtain it.

The original sequence { sin(j) }, incidentally, does not converge. The proof of this is not so easy, but you might try to prove this yourself.


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