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Bernoulli's Paradox

Suppose the harmonic series converges to h:

sum_(k=1)^infty1/k=h.

Then rearranging the terms in the sum gives

h-1=h,

which is a contradiction.

See also

Harmonic Series

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References

Boas, R. P. "Some Remarkable Sequences of Integers." Ch. 3 in Mathematical Plums (Ed. R. Honsberger). Washington, DC: Math. Assoc. Amer., pp. 39-40, 1979.

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Bernoulli's Paradox

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Bernoulli's Paradox." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BernoullisParadox.html

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