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Corollary 2 [Contractive Sequence Theorem] If $\left(x_n\right)$ is a sequence, for which there is a number $C<1$ such that $|x_{n+2}-x_{n+1}|\le C\cdot |x_{n+1}-x_n|$, then $\left(x_n\right)$ converges;