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RE: Sum of 1/Primes

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• Subject: [mg36959] RE: [mg36910] Sum of 1/Primes
• From: David Turner <dturner at faulkner.edu>
• Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 00:16:47 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

The sum diverges.  See Elementary Number Theory, 5th edition by David M.
Burton, pages 355-356.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias.Bode at oppenheim.de [mailto:Matthias.Bode at oppenheim.de]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg36959] [mg36910] Sum of 1/Primes


Dear Colleagues,

I calculated:

Sum[1/Prime[n], {n, 15000}] // N

Result: 2.74716

Now I wonder if this sum will converge or keep on growing, albeit very
slowly.

Best regards,

Matthias Bode
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