Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Yes, school was awesome!

Following the nostalgic poems of Group Thoery came an incident at work that just reinforced the awesome memories from school.
School in general and University in particular.

A coworker posted a question on a newsgroup today, asking what is the formula for the sum up to the Kth element of the harmonic series:
1 + {1 \over 2} + {1 \over 3} + {1 \over 4} + {1 \over 5} + \cdots =\sum_{n=1}^\infty {1 \over n}.
Why? I don't know.
Anyway, I pointed out, specifically:
And the second ultimately had the answer to his question. Which amounted to "there is no closed form formula".

In any event, this just brought back awesome memories, and it had to be put online to remain eternal, digital, free (let's hope, XX government...).
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1 comment:

Nick said...

Uggg... yeah, I dunno about you, but calculus wasn't one of my fondest memories from university. I got a 51 in first year, and didn't take any more calc courses after that. Is this a good memory for you cuz it was in first year and you probably studying harmonic series with Cordillia?

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