Modifications of the Harmonic Series - Department of Mathematics

listed in Table 2. The data is also presented in Graph 1 and Graph 2. The code for
the Mathematica program can be found in the Appendix.
Looking at the data, we notice the following:
1. Within the bases, the values do indeed increase as the value of the removed digit
increases. The same reasoning used for base ten at the end of Section 2.2 applies
for each base here as well.
2. The changes in the values when moving from digit 0 in one base to digit 1 in the
next are not strictly increasing. In the switches from bases 2 to 3 through 8 to 9
the values actually decrease. After that, the values increase during all of the base
switches. Moreover, after base 10, the values start to increase rapidly between the
bases. The value increases by approximately 28 between bases 10 and 11, by 277
between bases 11 and 12, and by 2526 between bases 12 and 13. We are unsure
why the decrease turns to a rapid increase at base 10.
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