Solution

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For , . The upper bound has telescoping partial sums, bounded by one. The positive partial sums of the original series are consequently bounded by two and increasing, so they converge as a monotone bounded sequence. The series converges absolutely. This also supplies the case of a p-series without requiring its exact sum.

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