Estimated Sums in Infinite Series Problem

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Homework Statement


How many terms of the series do we need to add in order to find the sum to the indicated accuracy?
Ʃ((-1)n)/(n(10n)) from n=1 to infinity
|error| <.0001

I keep ending up with n=log(4)-log(n)
 
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