This is called the Harmonic Series and has been the topic of many studies.
It comes down to a question of Divergence or Convergence.
You will get a finite sum of a series only if the series converges.
It has been proven that the Harmonic Series actually diverges.
Here are two Youtubes that show how this was done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jVKDGFU2IA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC6_mCUT9YU
Hope this helps
find the sum of n-term of the series
1/1+1/2+1/3+1/4+1/5+...+1/n
plz show step
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