Re: Problem with a limit.
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- Subject: [mg66779] Re: Problem with a limit.
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 05:48:21 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Roger Bagula wrote:
> This sum works really well:
>
> a = Sum[(PrimePi[k + 1] - PrimePi[k])/2^k, {k, 1, Infinity}]
>
> I got the idea to look at it from the other end as
> primes dominate the low end of the Integers:
>
> Limit[Sum[(PrimePi[k + 1] - PrimePi[k])/2^(n - k), {k, 1, n}], n ->
> Infinity]
>
> So I tried:
>
> Table[N[Limit[Sum[(PrimePi[ k + 1] - PrimePi[k])/2^(n - k), {k, 1, n}],
> n ->10^m], {m, 1, 10}]
>
>
> It's just an interesting problem in how the primes are distributed.
>
Hi Roger,
I am not sure what the question is, since the sum returned unevaluated
and the last command -- Table[xxx] -- returns a couple of error
messages. Perhaps you can try
In[2]:=
Table[N[Sum[(PrimePi[k + 1] - PrimePi[k])/
2^(10^n - k), {k, 1, 10^n}]], {n, 1, 5}]
Out[2]=
-9
{1.08398, 1.06275, 0.0634804, 3.7835 10 , 0.0012207}
I hope I have not missed the point.
Best regards,
Jean-Marc