Who Would Win?? Harmonic Series
A limit staged as a matchup: Harmonic Series.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2025-09-10-who-would-win--harmonic/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + … TEENSY TINY PIECES vs. LOTS AND LOTS OF PIECES. WINNER: lots-and-lots-ness (score: ∞)