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Identities for Reciprocal Binomials

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Euler’s results related to the sum of the ratios of harmonic numbers and binomial coefficients are investigated in this paper. We give a particular example involving quartic binomial coefficients.

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  1. Victoria University, 14428, Melbourne City, 8001, VIC, Australia

    Anthony Sofo

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  1. Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

    Gradimir V. Milovanović

  2. Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Michael Th. Rassias

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Sofo, A. (2014). Identities for Reciprocal Binomials. In: Milovanović, G., Rassias, M. (eds) Analytic Number Theory, Approximation Theory, and Special Functions. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0258-3_8

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