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Arithmetic - Harmonic progression

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:22 pm
by Tolaso J Kos
Consider the harmonic sequence

$$1, \frac{1}{2}, \frac{1}{3}, \cdots, \frac{1}{n}, \cdots$$

Prove that if we pick dinstinct terms of the above sequence we can construct an arithmetic progression sequence of as large (finite) length as we want.

Re: Arithmetic - Harmonic progression

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 9:13 pm
by Demetres
Just observe that $\displaystyle{\frac{1}{n!}, \frac{2}{n!}, \ldots, \frac{n}{n!}}$ are all distinct terms of the sequence.