Homework Help: calculus

Posted by sarah on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 7:58pm.

2. if the sum from n=1 to infinity of a(sub n) converges and a(sub n) does not =0, then the sun from n=1 to infinity of 1/(a(sub n)) diverges.
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calculus - Damon, Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 8:44pm
If the original series converges, a(n) gets vanishingly small for large n
That means 1/a(n) gets huge for large n, approaching 1/0

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