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Summing (Posted on 2004-04-16)

Consider the sum of the inverses of the squares of the primes; does it converge or diverge?

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I believe it should conevrge, being a subset of an absolutely convergent series: the sum of the inverses of the squares of all positive integers. Anyway I will check my math books... just in case!

Posted by Oskar on 2004-04-16 13:46:40

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