Re: [seul-edu] [OT] summation of 1/2x

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

<sigh> Looks like I missed it too, Jan, jm ... I read the problem as the one
I assumed Brian meant (sum of (1/2)^n instead of what he actually wrote (1/n).

At 01:06 PM 4/5/00 -0500, Jan wrote [in part]:

>> so you can prove that 1/2+1/4+1/8+..+1/2n+.. = 1
>
>Actually, that is 1/2^n (one over 2 to the n), not 1/2n.  As a matter of
>fact, the series 1/n does not have a finite sum. 

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