Tuesday, 18 February 2014

sequences and series - Testing for absolute convergence? frac(1)n5n+1

I'm trying to test the summation n=0(1)n5n+1 for absolute convergence.



By alternating series test, I can tell is is at least conditionally convergent.




However, when I used the ratio test, I got 1, which means it doesn't tell us anything.



A google search showed an answer on yahoo answers using the limit comparison test, using the harmonic series to compare it with, but they seemed to ignore the (1)n...



The answer in the book says it is conditionally convergent, but I can't work out how to show that it is not absolutely convergent.



Any ideas?

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