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2. Calculating sums of series
We review a number of techniques that provide the exact value of certain sums of series.
2.1 Telescoping
The principle is as follows: if a series u admits a general term of the form v
n + 1
- v
n
, we can express the partial sums of the series of general term u
n
in the form :
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