Timeline for Expression for summation involving factorial
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| Jun 6, 2016 at 16:17 | comment | added | Klaus Draeger | Note that the sum expands into $n!(\frac{1}{0!}+\dots+\frac{1}{n!})$; the sum in parentheses converges to $e$ from below, and can easily be shown to be in $(e-\frac{1}{n!},e)$. | |
| Jun 6, 2016 at 14:09 | comment | added | Arun Sen | Jeffrey - Thank you so much for the answer. Btw, do you have a reference for the proof? | |
| Jun 6, 2016 at 12:13 | history | answered | Jeffrey Shallit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |