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property of an iterated binary operation in which successive operations undergo telescoping reduction
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In mathematics, telescoping refers to a property of certain algebraic expressions or iterated binary operations in which successive terms cancel each other after expansion. As a result, the overall expression simplifies significantly, since most intermediate terms eliminate one another, leaving only a small number of boundary terms from the original structure.
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