This is not true! Although equality holds for n=1: It isn't true for n=2 or greater, for when n=2 yet , holds but not And when n=3 yet , again holds but not . Euler proved in 1735 that the the sum on the left approaches the irrational number = 1.6449340668482264... and it is an increasing function, so it is always less that . The expression on the right is also increasing, and approaches 2. But beginning with the third term it is already larger than the left side can ever be! Edwin