When I last reviewed the writeup for the series operators, I noticed two issues:

First, why is the RHS argument a list?  You only ever use the first
element of it; so why don't you just reference a single value?

Second, I'm trying to think of a simple and intuitive way to write up
a series expression for:

   triangle numbers: 0, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, etc.
   square numbers: 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, etc.
   factorials: 1, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, 720, 5040, etc.

The difficulty that I'm running into is that there's no reasonably
straightforward way of computing a given term solely from the previous
one or two items in the list.  There _is_ a simple way to compute the
next item from the previous item and the index number, or even
strictly from the index number; but there is no way that I'm aware of
to get the index number into the step function.

-- 
Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang

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