Thursday, 23 October 2014

calculus - How can I sum the infinite series frac15frac1cdot45cdot10+frac1cdot4cdot75cdot10cdot15cdotsqquad



How can I find the sum of the infinite series
1514510+14751015?



My attempt at a solution - I saw that I could rewrite it as
15(1410(1715((13k25k())
and that 3k25k35 as k grows larger. Using this I thought it might converge to 18, but I was wrong, the initial terms deviate significantly from 35.




According to Wolfram Alpha it converges to 1352. How can I get that ?


Answer



\begin{align*}(-1)^{n-1}\frac{1\cdot 4 \dots (3n-2)}{5\cdot 10 \dots 5n}&= (-1)^{n-1}\frac{3^n}{5^n}(-1)^n\frac{(-\frac{1}{3})\cdot (-\frac{4}{3}) \dots (-\frac{3n-2}{3})}{1\cdot 2 \dots n}\\ &= -(3/5)^n\binom{-1/3}{n}\end{align*}



Therefore, you can obtain



\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} -(3/5)^n\binom{-1/3}{n} = 1 - \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} (3/5)^n\binom{-1/3}{n} = 1- (1+\frac35)^{-1/3} = 1- \sqrt[3]{5/8} =1-\frac{\sqrt[3]5}{2}


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