Wednesday, 1 August 2018

arithmetic - Sum formula for geometric series



I solved this equation something like this, as shown in the photo:



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Is it correct?




If I put x=2 I get weird results!


Answer



As a lot of the comments and the other answers point out, this only works for $-1outside of that interval, we have:
11x1x21x3
which is a sequence that converges as long as |x|>1, and it gives x1x (or really, 11/x1, which ammounts to the same thing) if you do the same trick as you've done in your question. This is what is called "the series expansion of x1x around " (since the series converges as long as x is large enough), while x+x2+x3+ is the series expansion around 0 (since it converges as long as x is close enough to 0 [there is a bit more to it than that, but that's details]). Together, they give you geometric series that evaluate to xx1 on the whole number line except at 1 and 1.


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