writing a function using procedures

Question:writing a function using procedures

Posted: Rowlinginthedeep 5 Product: Maple 16

September 29 2012

Write a function to compute the n-th partial sum of the alternating series
            
1-1/(4)+1/(9)-1/(16)+...+(-1)^(n-1)*1/(n^(2))

Specifically, the procedure takes n as input, and returns the sum of the first n terms.

Can someone help me with this? I'm not very good at using procedures.

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