Bounding Partial Sums of the Harmonic Series

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To get a lower bound on the partial sum of the harmonic series
, replace the sum of the
terms
by
for each
,
. This shows that the
partial sum of the harmonic series is bounded below by
. Move the slider to see the partial sums and this lower bound. Terms of the same color sum to
Contributed by: Matt Clay (March 2011)
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Published: March 7 2011