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White_Owl

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Registered: 2010-03-03

Posts: 106

Summation of harmonic sequence

Problem:

Here c is a positive constant, find is this sequence convergent or divergent and if it is convergent, what it converges to?

I see that the series is convegent.

And I also see that it converges to some value which is bigger than 1/c, but less than 2/c.
But what exactly is the value? How to reach it?

Last edited by White_Owl (2013-03-07 02:33:44)

bobbym

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From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: Summation of harmonic sequence

Hi;

If you are summing it, it is a series not a sequence. That type do not converge.

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