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Partial sum of a series – Sharp EL-9900 User Manual

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Advanced Keyboard/CALCULUS USING THE SHARP EL-9900

Copyright © 2002, Sharp Electronics Corporation. Permission is granted to photocopy for educational use only.

Find the partial sum of a series,

1/X, for the first 10 terms.

1.

Make sure the SET UP to rectangular mode by pressing 2ndF SET UP ,

E (COORD) 1 (Rect). Press 2ndF

QUIT to exit the SET UP menu.

2.

First find the sequence of the first 10 terms of series

∑ 1/X by first pressing

CL 2ndF LIST A (OPE) 5 (seq

(

). Enter the generator 1/X by

pressing 1

÷

X/

θ/T/n , . Enter the lower and upper bounds for the

sequence by pressing 1 ,

1 0 ) . Find the sequence by pressing

ENTER . Press to see more of the sequence.

3.

Find the partial sum of the first 10 terms by pressing 2ndF LIST

6 (cumul) and pressing 2ndF ANS ENTER . Press to move right

in the sequence of partial sums until the last term is seen. The partial sum

of the first 10 terms is 2.9289.

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