Thursday 8 March 2018

calculus - How to evaluate the infinite series: $ frac 1 {3cdot6} + frac 1 {3cdot6cdot9} +frac 1 {3cdot6cdot9cdot12}+ldots$



The infinite series is given by:




$$ \dfrac 1 {3\cdot6} + \dfrac 1 {3\cdot6\cdot9} +\dfrac 1 {3\cdot6\cdot9\cdot12}+\ldots$$



What I thought of doing was to split the general term as:



$$\begin{align}
t_r &= \dfrac 1 {3^{r+1}(r+1)!}\\\\
&= \dfrac {r+1 - r} {3^{r+1}(r+1)!}\\\\
&= \dfrac {1} {3^{r+1}\cdot r!} - \dfrac{r}{3^{r+1}(r+1)!}
\end{align}$$




But this doesn't seem to help.



HINTS?


Answer



HINT:



$$e^x=\sum_{0\le r<\infty}\frac{x^r}{r!}$$



Can you take it from here?




A strongly resembling sequence $$-\ln(1-x)=\sum_{1\le r<\infty}\frac{x^r}{r}$$ for $-1\le x<1$


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