Adding port math/p5-Math-Series, a Perl extension dealing with mathematic series

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+Math::Series defines a class for simple mathematic series with a recursive 
+definition such as x_(n+1) = 1 / (x_n + 1). Such a recursive definition is 
+treated as a sequence whose elements will be added to form a series. You 
+can refer to the previous sequence element as well as to the current index 
+in the series. Creation of a Math::Series object is described below in the 
+paragraph about the constructor.
+
+Math::Series uses Math::Symbolic to parse and modify the recursive 
+sequence definitions. That means you specify the sequence as a string 
+which is parsed by Math::Symbolic. Alternatively, you can pass the 
+constructor a Math::Symbolic tree directly.
+
+Because Math::Series uses Math::Symbolic for its implementation, all 
+results will be Math::Symbolic objects which may contain other variables 
+than the sequence variable and the iterator variable.
+
+Each Math::Series object is an iterator to iterate over the elements of 
+the series starting at the first element (which was specified by the 
+starting element, the second argument to the new() constructor). It offers 
+facilities to cache all calculated elements and access any element 
+directly, though unless the element has been cached in a previous 
+calculation, this is just a shortcut for repeated use of the iterator.
+
+Every element in the series may only access its predecessor, not the 
+elements before that.
+
+WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Series
+Author: Steffen Mueller <series-module@steffen-mueller.net>