Re: summary of {1/n}

In article <ds7r4q$ma1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Keith A. Lewis <klewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Arturo Magidin wrote:
In article <1139237115.327293.36150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steven Woody <narkewoody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
what's the solution of summary of {1/n} ? thanks.

The infinite sum or series (which I suspect is what you mean by
"summary"; summary means something else)

1 + (1/2) + (1/3) + ... + (1/n) + ...

diverges. It has no "solution".


Arturo, you are amazing. I never would have figured out what he meant.

It helps not being a native speaker. I could make an intelligent guess
as to what "summary" might mean; I could easily have been wrong, of
course.

(Much easier when the mistakes go from English to Spanish, for me, at
least. The three most typical mistakes I see that way are: "aplicar"
for "application" as in school or job applications, which should be
'solicitudes'; "libreria" for library, and "biblioteca" for
"bookstore", which should be reversed; and perversely, 'lima' for
'lime' and 'limon' for 'lemon', when they should also be reversed:
'lima'="lemon" and 'limon' = "lime". Go figure)

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