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- From: yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu (John Yee)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Convergence for n! x^n ?
- Message-ID: <7844@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 23:40:12 GMT
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- Hi, I was reading in a industry (EE) newspaper that some guy seems to have
- used Maple to force the convergence of the summation:
- \sum_{n=0}^\infty n! x^n, x >> 1
- and even showing a graph of the function.
- Now, maybe I am missing something simple, but I can't see how this
- summation can be computed or be "forced to converge".
- The article did not go into details, merely hyped the supposed achievement.
- Elucidation welcome,
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- jy, yee@seas.ucla.edu
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