How many of these modified harmonic series converge?

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In my Analysis course we showed that the harmonic series diverged but the alternating harmonic series converges. This got me thinking:

How many sequences $(a_n)$ where $|a_n|=1/n$ are there such that $\sum a_n$ converges?

There are quite clearly at least countably many (modify the sign of the $n$th term of the alternating series and we still have convergence), so my question is really whether there are uncountably many such sequences. I should think so but I am failing to find a good reason.

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We can freely change signs on the terms of the shape $\frac{1}{2^k}$ without affecting convergence. So there are continuum-many such sequences.