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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 ia Paper 1 9F a Solution by
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Put , so . The printed summand is . If , its absolute value is at most , and the two geometric series converge. Thus there is absolute convergence.
For the series becomes , a divergent multiple of the harmonic series. For it becomesThe first series converges by the alternating series test, while the second diverges to , so their partial sums tend to . In particular, alternation of some terms does not imply convergence here. The complete classification isThere are no conditionally convergent cases.
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