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Re: Sum of 1/Primes

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• Subject: [mg36979] Re: Sum of 1/Primes
• From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 05:01:15 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

> 
> This sum converges, see a math text book !

That's nonsense

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeSums.html

Regards
  Jens


> 
> On Wednesday 02 October 2002 09:31, Matthias.Bode at oppenheim.de wrote:
> > 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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> >
> >
> >