One of the many interesting problems discussed by Ramanujan is concerned with the effect of truncating at its maximum term n n / n ! the exponential series for e n , where n is a positive integer. When n is large, the sum of the first n terms is, roughly speaking, half the sum of the whole series.
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E. T. Copson (1933) studied this question.