Could anyone help me solving the following limit?
$\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty} (\frac{1}{n+1}+ ... +\frac{1}{2n})$
I think it should just be 0 since we can distribute the limite inside the sum, but I am not sure of this answer. Thanks so much for your help!
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We can approximate the sum by definite integrals from below and above in the following way (see here for more details) $$ \log\biggl(2-\frac1{n+1}\biggr)=\int_{n+1}^{2n+1}x^{-1}\mathrm dx\le\sum_{k=n+1}^{2n}\frac1k\le\int_n^{2n}x^{-1}\mathrm dx=\log 2. $$ Since both of the bounds converge to the same limit as $n\to\infty$, we have that the limit as $n\to\infty$ is $\log 2$.
Notice $\sum_{i = 1}^n \frac{1}{n+i} = \sum_{i = 1}^{2n} \frac{1}{i} -\sum_{i = 1}^n \frac{1}{i} = H_{2n} - H_{n} $
Where $H_n$ stands for the $n^{th}$ term of harmoic numbers.
Therefore the limit equals $\lim_{n \to \infty } H_{2n} - H_{n}$
By the asymptotic expansion of $H_{n} ~ \ln(n) + \gamma + O(\frac{1}{n})$ when n goes up to infinity.
$$\lim_{n \to \infty } H_{2n} - H_{n} = \ln(2n) - \ln(n) = ln(2)$$