How to get the sum of the series: 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + ... + 1/n?
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I understand the answer is going to be 2 because I've worked with series before, but this is the first time doing it on MATLAB.There is going to be a while loop since this is an infinite series that converges to 2.
Here's what I've got but I'm getting nowhere.
ksum = 1;
n = 0;
while ksum <= 2
n = n + 1;
ksum = ksum + 1/n;
end
Help, please!
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KSSV
on 7 Jul 2020
Sum is not 2..how it is 2?
n = 10^5 ;
s = 0 ;
for i = 1:n
s = s+1/i ;
end
s
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Image Analyst
on 7 Jul 2020
Try this:
n = 1000;
denominators = 1 : n;
theTerms = 1 ./ denominators;
seriesSum = sum(theTerms)
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