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The harmonic hurdler

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Tony Crilly
Tony Crilly*
Affiliation:
Middlesex Polytechnic, Trent Park, Bramley Road, London N14 4XS
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The harmonic series seems to be a topic of enduring mathematical interest. Readers will be aware of the many neat methods which have appeared in the Gazette for showing its divergence but let us here investigate one of its discrete properties.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 73 , Issue 466 , December 1989 , pp. 281 - 283
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1989

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