Is 1/3 + 1/5 + 1/6 + 1/7 + 1/9 + ... tending towards infinity?

Yes, it does. Notes: - You don't need anything as clever as the Riemann zeta function to observe that the harmonic sum 1+1/2+1/3+... diverges. - That sum tends to infinity. Just infinity. N…

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