By the alternating series test, ∣Sn−S∣≤bn+1, so one needs 104 terms of the alternating harmonic series to estimate ln(2) to within 0.0001. The first 10 partial sums of the series ∑n=1∞n2n1 are (up to four decimals) 0.5000,0.6250,0.6667,0.6823,0.6885,0.6911,0.6923,0.6928,0.6930,0.6931 and the tenth partial sum is within 0.0001 of ln(2)=0.6931….