Integral of greatest integer function and its graph

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Homework Statement
Calculus problem.

How to calculate the integral of greatest function y=[1/x] ? And can someone please show me how to draw the graph of that function . Upper limit= 1,lower limit= 1/n (where n is natural number)

Please give me some hints or explanations for this kind of integral.
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I already tried to answer the question but don’t know whether the answer is right or not. I attach some of my steps done below.
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I won't try to read a sideways picture, but here's the picture you asked for:
jumps.jpg

showing jumps at ##\frac 1 2,~ \frac 1 3,~ \frac 1 4## etc. Ignore the glitches in the vertical lines. You just need to calculate the area under the graph from ##\frac 1 n## to ##1##.
 
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LCKurtz said:
I won't try to read a sideways picture, but here's the picture you asked for:
View attachment 246783
showing jumps at ##\frac 1 2,~ \frac 1 3,~ \frac 1 4## etc. Ignore the glitches in the vertical lines. You just need to calculate the area under the graph from ##\frac 1 n## to ##1##.
Thanks,it was very really helpful!
 
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...
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