Exercise 1504Calculus › Single-variable calculus › SequencesL2Added 2 Nov 2026
The alternating harmonic sums converge
#adjacent subsequences#alternating series#ln 2
Statement
Let . Show that and are adjacent sequences, and deduce that converges.
Hint
Compute , and .
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Solution
Monotonicity.
So is increasing and is decreasing.
Difference. .
Adjacent sequences. They converge to the same limit . Since both the even and the odd subsequences tend to , the whole sequence converges to .
Remark. The limit is (). The bounds give an error estimate of for free.