If you have studied math in 10th grade and maybe in 11th grade, you will know what I am talking about. But some of us were disingenious and dropped math when we were in 11th thinking it won't be of any use to us in the long run. Well, WRONG!!! This is where you could have applied your math, dudes! Here's a little intro to the geometric progression and then an example so that you will know what I'm talking about.

A geometric progression is a series of numbers, a(1), a(2), a(3), a(4)...... etc, such that the ratio of any two consecutive numbers, a(n+1)/a(n) is the same. This ratio is called the common ratio for the progression. For example, a geometric progression with the first term a(1) = 1 and common ratio 2 is:
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64,.....
You can see that a(n+1)/a(n) is 2 for any n in this series. For example: 4/2 = 2, 16/8 = 2, etc etc.
The common ratio need not be greater than one. An example where it is less than one is: a(1)=1, ratio = 1/2 therefore the series will be:
1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64,.....
The last term (n=infinity) term in this case will be as close to zero as possible. In the former case, the last term will be as close to infinity as possible. This is true of *ANY* geometric series which has a common ratio greater than one.
Which is why, I'm glad that the maker of the Tam movie Nayakan (in Hindi made as Velu Nayakan, after it was ripped off by the one and only Feroze Khan as Dayavan), a film loosely (I say loosely because I know that the real guy couldn't have been such a freaking ham actor!) based on the life of mafia don Varadharaja Mudaliar of Bombay, cut this particular scene I'm gonna talk about before the last term was reached.

This example, as many other examples will be in this timepass section, is brought to you thanks to Subroto. He was the one who realized the similarity between the geometric progression and this case.

The movie: Nayakan. Whenever there is any scene showing something really "touching" (or so that #$@%$@% shitbag Mani Rathnam thought), there's this tan ta dan ta dan ta... music that really makes me laugh till I cry. This music is basically the start of the song "Ten Paandi  Cheemayile"

The players: Well, there really is only one magaan hammer in this scene, and that is the ##@%^$@^% shithead Kamal Haasan. Or, as his fans would lovingly call him, "Kemel Saar".

The scene: Velu Nayakan's son (none other than the great Nasser) dies in a car crash while being chased by the police (Sonny Corleone? Of course not! Mani Rathnam is ORIGINAL!!! How can he copy ANYTHING?!). Nayakan is unaware of this, and is slowly taken to his courtyard where the
son's dead body is kept under a kafan. Nayakar Baba tries to remove the kafan, and his friends advice him, Nayakar Baba, don't. Don't see his face. But our obstinate Haasan says lower the shroud, I want to see his face. And thus starts our math lesson.

What happens: As soon as he sees his son's face, Nayakar Baba starts a geometric progression of Ah!s - The first term in this series contains one Ah!, the second term has two, and so on, so that this is a geometric series with the first term = 1 and the common ratio = 2. This series looks like:

Ah!, Ah Ah!, Ah Ah Ah Ah!, Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah!,......

The Ah-Ahing is supposed to be Nayakar Baba's way of expressing extreme sadness. It only ends up being the most hammed scene in that movie. Which is why I repeat, it was good that the director decided to say "Cut! Print" after the fourth term in this series, because I don't think I could have stood more laughing without my stomach erupting....

Of course, if you have Kamal Haasan playing such a role, you expect that something deserving should happen to him in the end. Well, it does. He is shot by Tinnu Anand (Saala aisa picture banaayega to Tinnu Anand nahin shoot karega to kaun karega!), his mentally-retarded protege. Although Tinnu Anand only says ``Nayakar Baba!'' before he shoots, I think the directors' cut of the movie had the line ``Hammer Baba! This is a real gun you pseud! Eat shit and die, Kemel!''
Tinnu Anand (who went on to act as another pseudo-retard in Agneepath, to utter curses like Melyanno! and Kutryanno!) didn't realize his gun had blanks until the movie was released and people actually thought Kemel Saar's acting was once again the best.

Final quib: Towards the end of the movie, Kemel Saar's son-in-law, a police officer, comes to meet him in jail. Kemel says something like he is an illiterate person, so how the f$#% was this shithead reading a thousand page novel when the police officer entered his cell!?!?!? Maybe it was the Illustrated Ramayana or something.