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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 ia Paper 4 8D a Solution by
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A sequence converges to when for every there is such that for all . A series converges to a finite when its partial sums converge to .
If the series converges, then , so its terms tend to zero. The converse is false: the harmonic series has terms tending to zero but diverges.
For the arithmetic averages, suppose . Fix and choose so for . The finite initial contribution is fixed, andFor sufficiently large , , provingThis is the Cesaro theorem for convergent sequences. Its hypothesis concerns a convergent sequence; the corresponding series need not be a convergent series.
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