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OpenStudy (anonymous):

How do you test the convergence for sigma (n^2 +1)^n over n^(2n)?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

(1+1/n^2)^n

OpenStudy (anonymous):

as n will increase, the value will be nearer and nearer to 1

OpenStudy (anonymous):

What test did you use? test for divergence, AST, etc? i have to use a test

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I haven't done this kind of stuff for a while, but I believe that I would have used L'Hopital's rule to test for convergence, since both the bottom and top go to infinity as n gets infinitely larger.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@xingtheking: oh so youre using test for divergence right?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I believe so; just looking at a site now about the so-named 'test for divergence'; at a basic level, the test just says that if the limit of your sum's equation (at infinity) is not 0 (or doesn't exist) then your sum will diverge.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

On the other hand, the logical opposite, that -'if the limit of your equation is zero, then the equation converges' is NOT necessarily true, as in the case of \[\sum1/n\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Oh because 1/n is harmonic p series thats right

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