Every occurs as the radius of convergence of a power series all of whose coefficients are positive integers. For , use the ceiling function to choose . ThenFor , the comparison test for series with a geometric series proves absolute convergence. For , the bound violates the fact that terms of a convergent series tend to zero. Hence the radius of convergence is exactly .
For , use : at every the ratio of successive term absolute values is , eventually exceeding two. The factorial coefficients therefore give divergence away from zero.
A power series with every coefficient a positive integer cannot have radius of convergence greater than one: makes convergence impossible at . If zero coefficients are allowed and only finitely many are nonzero, a polynomial instead has infinite radius of convergence.
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