My birthday puzzle (in year 2015)

Calculus Level 4

3 n = 1 n 3 2 3 2 n + 1 3\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{n^3-\frac{2}{3}}{2^{n+1}}

Someone gave me above infinite series for my birthday gift. What is the value?


The answer is 38.

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1 solution

Tanishq Varshney
Nov 19, 2015

Frankly, I just typed 38 seeing your age in your profile , and it came out to be correct!! BTW happy birthday. ( sorry I don't know in advance or belated).

3 ( n 3 2 n + 1 2 3. 2 n + 1 ) \large{3 \left(\sum \frac{n^3}{2^{n+1}} -\sum \frac{2}{3.2^{n+1}}\right)}

For the former part , we know

n = 1 x n = x 1 x \large{ \sum _{n=1}^{\infty} x^n= \frac{x}{1-x}} with x < 1 |x|<1

Differentiate it thrice and each time after differentiating multiply it by x x and then again differentiate. (In total 3 times)

We get n 3 x n 1 = 1 + 4 x + x 2 ( 1 x ) 4 \large{\sum n^3 x^{n-1}=\frac{1+4x+x^2}{(1-x)^4}}

Now multiply by x 2 x^2 and put x = 1 / 2 x=1/2

The latter part is a simple G.P.

Hence the answer is 38 \boxed{38}

Haha, may be my hint is too obvious as there are not many numbers can be found in my profile. Nice solution!

Chan Lye Lee - 5 years, 6 months ago

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