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#1 2008-04-08 17:19:25

clooneyisagenius
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Radius of convergence

Trying to find the radius of convergence of:

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#2 2008-04-08 17:24:37

mikau
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Re: Radius of convergence

ratio test, man! did you learn that, yet?


A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.

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#3 2008-04-08 17:31:44

clooneyisagenius
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Re: Radius of convergence

He. Right. So I try doing that... and it gets pretty complicated quickly.
I get:

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So, yes i did know that. But when I try to simplify its... not easy?

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#4 2008-04-08 19:48:26

mikau
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Re: Radius of convergence

its wonderfully easy! You're just not organizing it right. Invert the denominator and multiply it to get this:

using the product law for limits, you can separate these into three individual limits:

these you should be able to do yourself, but ask if you need help with any of them.

Last edited by mikau (2008-04-08 20:00:41)


A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.

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