n → ∞ lim ⎝ ⎛ ⎝ ⎛ i = 1 ∑ 2 n i ( − 1 ) i − 1 ( i 2 n ) ⎠ ⎞ − ln ( 8 n ) ⎠ ⎞
If the limit above can be expressed as γ − ln ( A ) for positive integer A , and where γ is the Euler-Mascheroni's Constant, find A .
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Very nice solution but could you please elaborate more for weak mathematicians !
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I'll be happy to explain. What bits do you feel need explaining in further detail?
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The second line looks complicated to me as I could not figure out how (1 - x)^2n come and also that Metric (2n , i ), Thank you .
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@Syed Baqir – That'll be a consequence of binomial expansion.
Let's do a simple example to see why this might be true.
( 1 − x ) 4 = 1 − 4 x + 6 x 2 − 4 x 3 + x 4 = 1 − i = 1 ∑ 4 ( − 1 ) i − 1 ( i 4 ) x i
This is not to hard to generalise if you know about binomial coefficients .
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@Isaac Buckley – How limits of integration is from 0 to 1 , as I thought there must be some infinity to the limits ?
@Isaac Buckley – Thank you very much, means alot.
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This looks quite messy, so let's fiddle about and see what happens.
I start with simplifying this: S = i = 1 ∑ 2 n i ( − 1 ) i − 1 ( i 2 n )
So we consider:
( 1 − x ) 2 n = 1 − i = 1 ∑ 2 n ( − 1 ) i − 1 ( i 2 n ) x i
If we divide by x and integrate we can get it to match what we want:
S = i = 1 ∑ 2 n i ( − 1 ) i − 1 ( i 2 n ) = ∫ 0 1 x 1 − ( 1 − x ) 2 n d x
By making a u = 1 − x sub we can simplify further:
S = ∫ 0 1 1 − u 1 − u 2 n d u = ∫ 0 1 k = 0 ∑ 2 n − 1 u k d x = H 2 n
L = n → ∞ lim ( H 2 n − ln ( 8 n ) ) = n → ∞ lim ( H 2 n − ln ( 2 n ) ) − ln ( 4 )
∴ L = γ − ln ( 4 ) ⟹ A = 4