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Refresher Maths: Divergence Of Harmonic Series 1/n

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Beginning my journey at Warwick

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Barry Leung
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Today’s Challenge

My journey at Warwick starts today as the refresher course goes live. There’s a question on one of the exercise sheets I thought was worth blogging about.

It asks whether the above harmonic series converges or not. The hint given is to try and compare it to an integral.

Give the problem a try before jumping in for the solution!

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