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When is this super duper geometric series formula valid?

A student in ECE301 once wrote the following formula on his exam:

$ \sum_{n = M}^N \alpha^n = \frac{\alpha^M - \alpha^{N-1}}{(1 - \alpha)} $

Is this formula correct? Please comment.


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