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Q: Does any method of summing divergent series work on the harmonic series?

Qiaochu YuanIt's sort of folklore (as exemplified by this old post at The Everything Seminar) that none of the common techniques for summing divergent series work to give a meaningful value to the harmonic series, and it's also sort of folklore (although I can't remember where I heard this) that the harmonic...

 

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