Saturday, 25 February 2017

Sum of divergent infinite series



A series goes 1 + 1/2 + 2/3 + 3/4 + 4/5....



Is there a possible summation equation for this series?




Since it gets smaller only after the first term and never anywhere else.


Answer



Since the general term is larger than 12, the sum is larger than 12× the number of terms and hence it diverges.



The partial sum is related to the Harmonic numbers.



1+12+23+34+45...=1+nk=1k1k=1+nk=1(11k)=1+nHn.



The Harmonic numbers only grow as the logarithm of n.



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