Friday, March 4, 2016

Harmonic numbers are not integers

A classic:

Show that

$$H_n = \sum_{k=1}^{n} \frac{1}{k}$$

is never an integer, for $n \gt 1$.

i.e.

$$ 1 + \frac{1}{2} + \dots + \frac{1}{n}$$

is never an integer for $n \gt 1$.



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