Rational sequence converging to zero at every standard absolute value

ID: rational-sequence-converging-to-zero-at-every-standard-absolute-value

The displayed nonzero rational sequence tends to zero both in the usual real absolute value and in every p-adic absolute value. In the real absolute value, . For a fixed prime and , the denominator is congruent to one modulo , so its P-adic valuation is zero. Therefore , proving .
This is convergence at each fixed place; it is not uniform convergence over all primes. For each particular , new prime divisors of the denominator can compensate the small values at the previously fixed places, consistently with the product formula. Thus a product identity for a single rational number does not prohibit pointwise convergence at infinitely many absolute values.

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