22a. Harmonic

Short review question.

The harmonic-add function takes in a start and an end number, and finds the sum 1/start + 1/(start+1) + ... + 1/end.

    (check-expect (harmonic-add 1 2) 1.5)
    (check-within (harmonic-add 1 3) 1.8333 0.0001)
    (check-within (harmonic-add 1 4) 2.0833 0.0001)

Example in math: (harmonic-add 1 4) is $$ \frac{1}{1} + \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{3} + \frac{1}{4}. $$

Another example: (harmonic-add 3 7) is $$ \frac{1}{3} + \frac{1}{4} + \frac{1}{5} + \frac{1}{6} + \frac{1}{7}. $$

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