So many 6's.............

Divergence[edit]

There are several well-known proofs of the divergence of the harmonic series. A few of them are given below.

Comparison test[edit]

One way to prove divergence is to compare the harmonic series with another divergent series, where each denominator is replaced with the next-largest power of two:

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}&{}1+{\frac {1}{2}}+{\frac {1}{3}}+{\frac {1}{4}}+{\frac {1}{5}}+{\frac {1}{6}}+{\frac {1}{7}}+{\frac {1}{8}}+{\frac {1}{9}}+\cdots \\[12pt]>{}&1+{\frac {1}{2}}+{\frac {1}{4}}+{\frac {1}{4}}+{\frac {1}{8}}+{\frac {1}{8}}+{\frac {1}{8}}+{\frac {1}{8}}+{\frac {1}{16}}+\cdots \end{aligned}}}$