Consider the following fraction:
1 + 2 3 + 4 5 + 6 7 + 8 9 + 1 0 1 1 + 1 2 ⋰
The fraction can be formalized via recursive definition as a 1 where a n = n + n + 1 a n + 2 but I would highly recommend trying to intuitively simplify the fraction shown above into some sort of series and then
What is the answer?
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well done that was the same solution I came up with, only once I came up with the summation form I first put it into wolframalpha to get the answer, 2 e then I later realized it might have to do with the e x = i = 0 ∑ ∞ i ! x i
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interesting. Tell me about the kinds of people though
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@Alexander Shannon what do u mean?
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@Chase Marangu – Why did you change the "about" part? :D Sorry, it was more interesting than the math, so I got curious
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@Alexander Shannon – @Alexander Shannon what about part?? What are u talkinh about???
Let the given fraction be Q . Then we have
Q = 1 + 2 3 + 2 ⋅ 4 5 + 2 ⋅ 4 ⋅ 6 7 + ⋯ = 2 0 ⋅ 0 ! 1 + 2 1 ⋅ 1 ! 3 + 2 2 ⋅ 2 ! 5 + 2 3 ⋅ 3 ! 7 + = n = 0 ∑ ∞ 2 n n ! 2 n + 1 = n = 1 ∑ ∞ 2 n − 1 n ! n + n = 0 ∑ ∞ 2 n n ! 1 = n = 1 ∑ ∞ n ! n x n − 1 + n = 0 ∑ ∞ n ! x n = d x d e x + e x = e x + e x = 2 e ≈ 3 . 2 9 7 4 4 Replace 2 1 by x Put back 2 1 as x
interesting using the n ! n ∗ x n − 1 series expression of d x d e x . Well done solving this!
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This fraction can be expressed as: 1 + 2 3 + 2 × 4 5 + 2 × 4 × 6 7 + 2 × 4 × 6 × 8 9 + ⋯ = 2 0 × 0 ! 1 + 2 1 × 1 ! 3 + 2 2 × 2 ! 5 + 2 3 × 3 ! 7 + 2 4 × 4 ! 9 + ⋯ We change it into the summation form:
k = 0 ∑ ∞ 2 k k ! 2 k + 1 = k = 0 ∑ ∞ 2 k k ! 2 k + k = 0 ∑ ∞ 2 k k ! 1 = k = 1 ∑ ∞ 2 k − 1 ( k − 1 ) ! 1 + k = 0 ∑ ∞ 2 k k ! 1 = k = 0 ∑ ∞ 2 k k ! 1 + k = 0 ∑ ∞ 2 k k ! 1 = 2 k = 0 ∑ ∞ 2 k k ! 1 = 2 k = 0 ∑ ∞ ( 2 1 ) k k ! 1 = 2 e 2 1 = 2 e ≈ 3 . 2 9 7 4 4