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Daily Maths Challenges • 5 months ago

[2024/06/02] Horizontal asymptote of the other kind

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[2024/06/02] Horizontal asymptote of the other kind

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Daily Maths Challenges • 5 months ago

S=sum of (-1)^n/n from 1 to infty

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1•5 months ago
minus one plus a half minus a third plus a quarter… this converges to a value somewhere between 0 and -1, but I dont know how to get more precision without just running this out by hand a bunch more.

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