S = n = 1 ∑ ∞ n 2 1 , ⌊ 1 0 5 × S ⌋ = ?
Note that m n is the tetration function.
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Add up the first four terms because 1/2^65536 is very tiny
How does circles and polygons play into this?
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Challenge Master Note: No. Can you elaborate on it? How did you reached that conclusion? Were you conducting an experiment? What are the parameters? What's the control variables? Sample size? Hypothesis?
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@Pi Han Goh – Simply by observing the specimen's activity for a couple of months did I conclude my result.
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To be precise: n 2 are 2, 4, 16, 65536, and the next one is a number with 20,000 digits.
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I'll try to provide a sensible solution here:
It is obvious that the sum S is bounded below by 0 and above by 1 because the sum must be positive since only positive terms are added. The upper bound is given by comparison.
0 < S < n = 1 ∑ ∞ 2 n 1 = 1
So, let's consider that the sum S is of the form S = 0 . a b c d e f g h ⋯ , where a , b , c , d , e , f , g , ⋯ ∈ { 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , … , 9 } . Then, we have,
⌊ 1 0 5 × S ⌋ = ⌊ a b c d e . f g h ⋯ ⌋ = a b c d e
We need to find a b c d e . Now, comes the calculator part. We test how many terms we need to get the correct result. From the above result, note that the insignificant terms that doesn't change our answer are of the order of magnitude ≤ ( − 6 ) since those terms only contribute to the fractional part of 1 0 5 S and can never affect the integral part as subsequent terms rapidly decrease .
Hence, we use only those terms which are of the order of magnitude ≥ ( − 5 ) . Now, well, let's just say that the calculator works here more than you do.
The last term in the series that has order of magnitude ≥ ( − 5 ) is 4 2 1 .
This is because 5 2 1 < 4 2 × 2 1 and the latter has order of magnitude ≤ ( − 6 ) .
So, it all boils down to this:
⌊ 1 0 5 × S ⌋ = ⌊ 1 0 5 × n = 1 ∑ 4 n 2 1 ⌋ = 8 1 2 5 1