Let S = 4 ! 1 + 5 ! 1 + 8 ! 1 + 9 ! 1 + ⋯ + ( 4 n ) ! 1 + ( 4 n + 1 ) ! 1 + ⋯
Find the value of ⌊ 1 0 0 0 S ⌋
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S = 0 . 0 5 0 0 2 7 5 5 9 5 6 7 5 4 0 7 9
@Daniel Liu - If this is not a full solution, then what is the full solution? If you give me a clue, I will write out one.
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I consider a full solution one with motivation on how you solved it. This prevents anyone from doing anything like partial sums, or Wolfram Alpha-ing, or anything like that.
Yes, this question is manipulation of power series, although you first Taylor expansion needs exponents on the powers of x . Obviously the expansion of 2 sin x + cos x + e x wouldn't be linear.
i got 51 :P
A classical way to extract some terms of the exponantial series is to use an n t h root of unity which is not 1:
Let ω = e i n 2 π
Then,
e x + e ω x + ⋯ + e ω n − 1 x = k = 0 ∑ + ∞ x k k ! 1 + ω k + ω 2 k + ⋯ + ω ( n − 1 ) k
But 1 + ω k + ω 2 k + ⋯ + ω ( n − 1 ) k = { n if k m o d n = 0 0 else
So k = 0 ∑ + ∞ ( n k ) ! x n k = n e x + e ω x + ⋯ + e ω n − 1 x
You can integrate to get k = 0 ∑ + ∞ ( n k + 1 ) ! x n k + 1
Applying this to n = 4 , we get k = 1 ∑ + ∞ ( 4 k ) ! x 4 k + ( 4 k + 1 ) ! x 4 k + 1 = 2 cos ( x ) + sin ( x ) + e x − 1 − x
So the answer is 2 cos ( 1 ) + sin ( 1 ) + e − 4
Looking at the series, we group in a pair of two items., first two is n=1, second two n=2, third two n=3 gives
1
2
!
1
+
1
3
!
1
1000 times the floor of these would be 0 + 0
Similarly all the rest will be zeros.
Thus the sum of the first given four items and its floor value is found to be
5
0
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[This is not a full solution because I'm too lazy to write one ^_^]
We see that the taylor polynomial of 2 sin x + cos x + e x = 1 + x + 4 ! x 4 + 5 ! x 5 + 8 ! x 8 + ⋯
Plugging in x = 1 gives 2 sin 1 + cos 1 + e 1 = 2 + 4 ! 1 + 5 ! 1 + 8 ! 1 + ⋯
We subtract 2 to get the sum we are looking for.
Thus the exact value is S = 2 sin 1 + cos 1 + e − 2
where we are working in radians.
We have that S = 2 sin 1 + cos 1 + e − 2 ≈ 0 . 0 5 0 so ⌊ 1 0 0 0 S ⌋ = 5 0
This can be very easily found using partial sums, as even only 4 ! 1 + 5 ! 1 gives S = 0 . 0 5 . However I hope that people will try to find the exact value ⌣ ¨