Wednesday, 25 July 2018

elementary number theory - How to sum this infinite series



How to sum this series:



11+111+1111+11111+




My attempt:



Multiply and divide the series by 9



9(19+199+1999+19999+)



9(1101+11021+11031+11041+)



Now let aN denote the number of divisors of N, after some simplification the series becomes:




9(1+aN10N)



This is where I am stuck...



PS: Please rectify my mistakes along the way


Answer



Your approach is very nice but, as pointed by Pranav Arora, for the summation up to term n, a CAS leads to S=9(ψ(0)110(n+1)log(10)ψ(0)110(1)log(10)) and for the infinite summation, it becomes S=9(log(109)ψ(0)110(1))log(10)1.100918190836200736379855



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