Interesting Thing about Infinite Series...

$\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{e}{3((n + 1)(n + 3))}$ $=$ $\frac{e}{4}$

$\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{\pi}{3((n + 1)(n + 3))}$ $=$ $\frac{\pi}{4}$

$\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{9}{3((n + 1)(n + 3))}$ $=$ $\frac{9}{4}$

Therefore:

$\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x}{3((n + 1)(n + 3))}$ will always equal $\frac{x}{4}$ , where $x$ is any type of number.

$\displaystyle\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x}{(n + 1)(n + 3)}$ will always equal $\frac{3x}{4}$ , where $x$ is any type of number.

Hope you found this interesting!

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A Former Brilliant Member - 4 weeks ago

You were right! You do know more people. XD. But I don't know a thing about Calculus, Limits or Integrals, so I don't understand the note. =D

A Former Brilliant Member - 1 week, 1 day ago

$\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{\left(n+1\right)\left(n+3\right)}\ =\ \frac{1}{2}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\left(\frac{1}{n+1}-\frac{1}{n+3}\right)=\frac{3}{4}$

So, $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{x}{\left(n+1\right)\left(n+3\right)}$ will always be equal to $\frac{3x}{4}$ .

Also, a typo in the last summation, it should be $\frac{3x}{4}$ , not $\frac{x}{12}$

Aaghaz Mahajan - 4 weeks ago

Nice post @Yajat Shamji. Thanku for sharing this with us.

Alternatively, you could go from your result to observation and proof it like @Aaghaz Mahajan mentioned . Found your post interesting.

Aryan Sanghi - 4 weeks ago

Hey man, are you the younger brother of Aniket Sanghi?? i used to follow his feed for those amazing problems....no doubt he secured a great rank in JEE!!!

Aaghaz Mahajan - 4 weeks ago

Thanks, @Aryan Sanghi! But I am GCSE so am only posting this for comments and suggestions

A Former Brilliant Member - 4 weeks ago

Can you please send a proof ? Also you can prove more sums like this via the Digamma function or atleast that's how I solved your sums.Try Brilliant website for the Digamma function.

Aruna Yumlembam - 4 weeks ago

Look at my post to Aryan Sanghi.

A Former Brilliant Member - 4 weeks ago

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