Blade
Mar24-04, 08:57 PM
Find the number of terms necessary to approximate the sum of the series with an error <.01
Summation of 1/n^2 ;n=1, to infinity
I figured the exact answer was pi^2/6, but I have no clue what to do find out the number of terms to get <.01 error. I just started manually churning the summations out until 100 terms (which it was less than <.01 error), but I doubt that is the correct or most accurate way.
Summation of 1/n^2 ;n=1, to infinity
I figured the exact answer was pi^2/6, but I have no clue what to do find out the number of terms to get <.01 error. I just started manually churning the summations out until 100 terms (which it was less than <.01 error), but I doubt that is the correct or most accurate way.