Saturday, November 5, 2016

sequences and series - What is limit of $sum limits_{n=0}^{infty}frac{1}{(2n)!} $?



What is the limit of the series $1 \over (2n)!$ for n in $[0, \infty)$ ?



$$ \sum_{n = 0}^{\infty}{1 \over (2n)!}$$
I've ground out the sum of the 1st 1000 terms to 1000 digits using Python,

(see here ), but how would a mathematician calculate the limit? And what is it?



No, this isn't homework. I'm 73. Just curious.



Thanks


Answer



It's half the sum of $e^1=\sum 1/n!$ and $e^{-1}=\sum (-1)^{n}/n!$ (or $\cosh 1$, in other words).


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