Showing posts with label introductions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label introductions. Show all posts

Monday, January 28, 2008

Welcome to my blag

Just down the street little Jenny Nong created her blag (http://www.jennynong.blogspot.com) and I decided to try my hand at writing about what I cared about.

Then I realized that would be one empty blag.

So instead, I'm writing about the next best things: metal, math, and general brutality (brutality shall remain ambiguous so I can write about whatever the hell I want, and I'm gonna).

Just so you know, if you don't know me: Student in America. Hi. Let's get on with it.

What's brutal today? Depleting harmonic series. They were first studied before 1915 and theyre really cool. All terms with a 9 in the denominator/ in decimal representation are excluded from the series. So what happens?

∞

∑ (1/n)

n


Figure it out. Hint? DHS are shown to always converge to a certain value, or less than that value. What is the value? What does this series converge to?
Enjoy. I'll post the answer tomorrow. Theres a good xkcd today, too