The Error in an Alternating Series

DOI10.1080/00029890.2017.1416875MaRDI QIDQ4577017zbMATHOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Mark B. Villarino

Publication date 11 July 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08568

zbMATH Keywords

alternating seriesEuler transformestimate of the remainder of a series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical summation of series (65B10) Approximation to limiting values (summation of series, etc.) (40A25)

Abstract: We give a new proof of Johnsonbaugh's refined error estimates of an alternating series based on an idea of R. M. Young. We also give a new proof of the error estimate and convergence of the Euler transform.

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