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November 10, 2006 · answers, calculusey stuff, The Mathcast · Permalink

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The conclusion to the banana & camel puzzle.

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  1. strauss said,

    August 17, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    A couple of years later, we put up a post on the harmonic series, which is closely related to this puzzle and explains how to make estimates like the one we use in this segment.

  2. Shawn said,

    April 16, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    The summation from k = 1 to 3092 of (2k-1)^-1 is a little over 5.

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