What is bigger?
1 000 000 000! or
Note: The first number has a factorial
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Let x = 1 0 9 ! and y = 1 0 1 0 1 0 .
We compare x and y by taking logarithms (with base 1 0 ).
By the laws of logarithm, we have lo g x = lo g 1 0 9 ! = n = 1 ∑ 1 0 9 lo g n < n = 1 ∑ 1 0 9 lo g 1 0 1 0 = n = 1 ∑ 1 0 9 1 0 = 1 0 9 ⋅ 1 0 = 1 0 1 0 = lo g y , which implies that x < y as lo g ( ⋅ ) is an increasing function.
Hence, y = 1 0 1 0 1 0 is bigger .