harmonic series

English

Noun

harmonic series (plural harmonic series)

(mathematics, mathematical analysis) The divergent series whose terms are the reciprocals of the positive integers; the series $\textstyle \sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{n}}$ .
(music, physics) The sequence of all positive integer multiples of a base frequency.

Translations

series of reciprocals of natural numbers

Russian: гармони́ческий ряд m (garmoníčeskij rjad)

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