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## #1 2006-05-14 18:15:24

George,Y
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## #2 2006-05-14 18:48:40

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

Couldn't that be re-written as:

I havn't had much experience with lim, and can't remember what it signifys. What exactly is your question?

Edit: Upon refreshing my memories with limits (The almighty Wikipedia ) The formula I specified is incorrect. I don't know if you already know what your formula does or not. Could supply a bit more information? As far as I can tell, your forumla is getting as close to zero as possible and then bigger at a slower rate depending on the size of n.

If you were to make n = 900. It would make the sum of:

Where i was increasing from 1 until it reached 900.

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## #3 2006-05-14 19:33:55

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

Good.
The interesting here is that n is in non-trivial place in the sum.

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## #4 2006-05-14 19:38:39

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

...I think...:)

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## #5 2006-05-14 19:49:42

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

From Excel. Notice the interesting pattern. This may help us rewrite the equation.

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## #6 2006-05-14 20:28:18

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

A plot:

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## #7 2006-05-15 02:33:51

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

krassi_holmz wrote:

Good.
The interesting here is that n is in non-trivial place in the sum.

Yes, you are smart!

To Zmurf and Krassi:
Originally it's a Rieman Sum, an integration question. So I guess Krassi has used integral.

Original Question:

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## #8 2006-05-19 00:47:37

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

???
That's A Limit!!!

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## #9 2006-05-19 03:22:17

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

Yes, and that does return a limit result log2

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## #10 2006-05-20 14:51:00

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

I'm from Beijing China.

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## #11 2006-05-20 21:08:57

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

liuv wrote:

How do you transform it into a Rieman Sum? There is no Δx or another 1/n in it!

The integral is indeed a limit if you admit the property of Delta Function:

where

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## #12 2006-05-20 22:32:27

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

Here's a SUM (I actually need it for a question):
Find:

,
where P means the prime number set.

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## #13 2006-05-21 00:18:11

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

The sum of the reciprocal of every prime to power n?

Then put into Excel.

For Primes up to 100,000
n=1: 2.705272179
n=2: 0.452246618
n=10: 0.000993604
n=20: 9.53961E-07

So that seems to be heading for 0, but then there are infinitely many primes, not just the 9,500 in the list.

(The "2.70" for n=1 is interesting)

(Here's another thought, it will be less than the same sum over positive integers)

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## #14 2006-05-21 02:08:35

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

oh...my English is poor..so i can not express what i think sometimes.:D but i'm very sure my answer is right.:P

on the image:

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## #15 2006-05-22 02:28:11

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

Thank you liuv, good shifting! My thought is

for krassi holmz,
you may check out some properties for prime numbers.
PS> how did you put "n->∞" under "lim"?

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## #16 2006-05-22 09:21:17

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

Like that.  Basically, put a \ before lim.

"In the real world, this would be a problem.  But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist.  So we'll go ahead and do that now..."

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## #17 2006-05-22 23:41:23

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

Yep.

\lim_{n \to \infty}

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## #18 2006-05-22 23:44:29

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### Re: Sum of an Infinite Series

Rob wrote:

but then there are infinitely many primes, not just the 9,500 in the list.

That's my point that you can't compute the lim directly- for different number of the primes you'll get different result.

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## #19 2006-05-27 22:42:26

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thanks a lot!

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