Find the limit for Sum[n^p,{n,1,n0}]/n0^{p+1} when n0 goes to infinity

Filed under: Research — by admin at 2:12 pm on Friday, August 17, 2007

My way of doing this is to first assume that the limit does exist and the value is c.

Then when n0 is big enough, Sum[n^p, {n,1,n0}]/n0^{p+1} = c is a very good approximation. Thus,

Sum[n^p,{n,1,n0}]=c n0^{p+1} (*)
For the same reason,

Sum[n^p{n,1,n0+1}=c (n0+1)^{p+1} (**)

From equation (*) and (**), you can solve that c=1/(p+1).//Done

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