Linux isnt even suppose to be even close to Unix. Linux is based off of Minix, a micro-kernel architectureâ¦ Minix and Unix are 2 completely different cores, as different as Windows and Mac OS X, Windows and Linux, and Mac and Linux. BSD is a different beast, based on Unix, Linux is based on Minix, OS X is based on BSD.
1 A geometric sequence is one in which the same number is multiplied or divided by each element to get the next element in the sequence. 2  2, 4, 8, 16, ... is a geometric sequence.
Lesson Summary. A geometric sequence is formed by multiplying each preceding term by the same factor, which we call the common ratio r. When given the rule for a specific geometric sequence, the first term a (1) of the sequence and the common ratio r of the sequence can be clearly identified.