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It's e-asy (Posted on 2008-02-19) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Outline a method for calculating Sk = Σ nk/n! for n=1 to infinity and compute the first few terms of Sk for natural numbers k.

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re(2): Solution - question | Comment 6 of 7 |
(In reply to re: Solution - question by brianjn)

Its correct. 1st summation is over n and the second summation is over i.
but on the 4th line I reversed these summations i.e.,
1st summation over i and second over n.

What I want to say is that 3rd line means
S(k)=
ΣC(k-1,0)*1/(n-1)!+C(k-1,1)*(n-1)/(n-1)!+C(k-1,2)*(n-1)²/(n-1)!+.........
  Posted by Praneeth on 2008-02-20 03:10:13

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