Infinite Sum

Calculus Level 2

Evaluate the following infinite sum:

1 2 + 1 + 2 2 2 + 1 + 4 2 4 + 1 + . . . \displaystyle\frac{1}{2+1}+\frac{2}{2^2+1}+\frac{4}{2^4+1}+...


The answer is 1.

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1 solution

Ronak Agarwal
Aug 20, 2014

We have S = r = 0 n 2 r 2 2 r + 1 S=\sum _{ r=0 }^{ n }{ \frac { { 2 }^{ r } }{ { 2 }^{ { 2 }^{ r } }+1 } }

Hence T r = 2 r 2 2 r + 1 {T}_{r}=\frac { { 2 }^{ r } }{ { 2 }^{ { 2 }^{ r } }+1 }

So T r {T}_{r} can be written as

= ( 2 r 2 2 r 1 ) ( 2 r + 1 2 2 r + 1 1 ) = V ( r ) V ( r + 1 ) =(\frac { { 2 }^{ r } }{ { 2 }^{ { 2 }^{ r } }-1 } )-(\frac { { 2 }^{ r+1 } }{ { 2 }^{ { 2 }^{ r+1 } }-1 } )=V(r)-V(r+1)

So we have formed a telescoping series. Finally S S can be written as :

S = V ( 0 ) V ( n + 1 ) = 1 ( 2 n + 1 2 2 n + 1 1 ) S=V(0)-V(n+1)=1-(\frac { { 2 }^{ n+1 } }{ { 2 }^{ { 2 }^{ n+1 } }-1 } )

Finally our infinte series sum can be written as :

S = 1 lim n ( 2 n + 1 2 2 n + 1 1 ) S=1-\lim _{ n\rightarrow \infty }{ (\frac { { 2 }^{ n+1 } }{ { 2 }^{ { 2 }^{ n+1 } }-1 } ) }

S = 1 \Rightarrow \boxed { S=1 }

Can you explain how did you break T_r into V(r) and V(r+1) ?

Dhruv Kunjumon - 6 years, 8 months ago

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even i want to know it

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