In Sequence/Series what is the current term and what is the previous term?

Question

If a₁ is the 1st term, is this considered the previous term? and a^n-l the current term?

Sequence/Series is Aritemetric and Geometric.

Answer 1

A¹ is always the first term.

Aⁿ is the current term.

A^n-1 is the previous term.

Aⁿ⁺¹ is the next term.

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