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- From: Dave Dodson <dodson@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Does this product converge ???
- Originator: dodson@bach.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.192535.29669@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:25:35 GMT
- Reply-To: dodson@convex.COM (Dave Dodson)
- References: <4526@winnie.fit.edu> <1992Dec22.165148.20421@draper.com>
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- Keywords: Infinite products, convergence
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- In article <1992Dec22.165148.20421@draper.com> storch@draper.com (Joel Storch) writes:
- >
- >To prove that Product(k=3,infinity, Cos(Pi/k)) converges, first rewrite it as
- >Product(k=3,infinity,1-2 (Sin(Pi/2k))^2). This product will converge
- >(absolutely) if the infinite series Sum(k=3,infinity,(Sin(Pi/2k))^2)
- >converges. The Ratio Test fails here but Raabe's test shows that the series
- >converges.
- >
- >One source of theorems on convergence of infinite Products is Whittaker &
- >Watson, "A course in Modern Analysis"
-
- Even simpler: The sequence of partial products is non-negative and monotone-
- decreasing. Therefore it has a greatest lower bound, which must be the limit.
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