Re: [WP 34s] Summation Function (Sigma) Message #9 Posted by Paul Dale on 29 Jan 2013, 4:10 a.m., in response to message #8 by Paul C
The 34S does no symbolic manipulations, so it can't recognise what you want it to here. Use an RPL machine for this kind of thing, the 34S is strictly numeric.
Moreover the sum from 1 to 1,000 of 1/n is 500,500 which is a very very long way from the correct answer of infinity. Thus, making summations to infinity the same as summations to 1,000 will produce incorrect answers. The 34S does not produce incorrect answers, rather it does its best to give you the correctly rounded result for what you actually ask for -- which is often not what you really want, but that is beside the point.
- Pauli
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