Motivation
The Shanks transformation is motivated by the observation that — for larger — the partial sum quite often behaves approximately as
with so that the sequence converges transiently to the series result for So for and the respective partial sums are:
These three equations contain three unknowns: and Solving for gives
In the (exceptional) case that the denominator is equal to zero: then for all
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