How do you simplify $\frac{1}{1}+\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{3}+...+\frac{1}{100}$ or maybe a generalisation, like $\sum_{n=1}^{x}\frac{1}{n}?$ I don't know any way to do this so far. I've tried to split it into partial fractions, but was not able to do it. Any form of simplification would be fine.

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As x approaches infinity, the sum approaches infinity.

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