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Convergence

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-12 6:25

Hi,

I have the following series: \sum_{n=2}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n\,\textup{log}^{2}n}

I just want to know whether it converges or not. I've tried all the convergence tests I've found (at least inf limit, ratio, root, Raabe, Cauchy, maybe some other I forgot?), none is conclusive. I've tried to numerically sum it (just to get an idea), but with floating point doubles I run out of precision and with arbitrary precision arithmetic I run out of patience before reaching any conclusion.

My hunch it that it doesn't converge. It's not really important but it's been bugging me, I must have missed something obvious.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-12 6:27

Let me try that again: \sum_{n=2}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n\,log^{2}n}

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-12 6:39

What's the base of your logarithm?

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-12 7:16

>>3
Irrelevant, that would just scale the series by a constant.

Integral test, substitute log n for t.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-12 10:52

It converges.

>>4
Irrelevant, that would just scale the series by a constant.
Nonsense.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-13 4:04

>>5
blatherskite.

:/

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-13 21:50


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