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- From: roth@3d.enet.dec.com (Jim Roth)
- Subject: Re: Does this product converge ???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.162848.20221@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: 23 DEC 92 11:26:20
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- In article <1992Dec22.192535.29669@news.eng.convex.com>, Dave Dodson <dodson@convex.COM> writes...
- >In article <1992Dec22.165148.20421@draper.com> storch@draper.com (Joel Storch) writes:
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- >>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.
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- >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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- But is the limit greater than zero?
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- Geometrically, this product arises from a nested sequence of
- inscribed circles and regular n-gons (convex of course), starting
- with a triangle.
-
- - Jim
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- >Dave Dodson dodson@convex.COM
- >Convex Computer Corporation Richardson, Texas (214) 497-4234
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