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A harmonic progression is one in which the terms are the reciprocals of the terms of an arithmetic progression; it therefore has the general form 1/ a, 1/( a ?+? d),?…?, 1/[ a +( n -1) d ]. This type of progression has no general formula to express its sum.

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