Summing an Alternating Series

DOI10.2307/2321292zbMath0425.65002OpenAlexW4252553748MaRDI QIDQ3860718

Richard Johnsonbaugh

Publication date: 1979

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2321292

zbMATH Keywords

numerical resultsinfinite seriesfinite differencesBernoulli numbersalternating seriesacceleration of convergenceEuler-Maclaurin formulasharp remainder estimates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05) Approximation to limiting values (summation of series, etc.) (40A25) Euler-Maclaurin formula in numerical analysis (65B15) Numerical summation of series (65B10)

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