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For episodic tasks with an absorbing state, why can't we both have $\gamma=1$ and $T= \infty$ in the definition of the return?

For episodic tasks with an absorbing state, why can't $\gamma=1$ and $T= \infty$? In Sutton and Barto's book, they say that, for episodic tasks with absorbing states that becomes an infinite sequence, ...