limits problem

Calculus Level 3

about limits little bit tricky.

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Brian Moehring
Jul 7, 2018

Relevant wiki: Stirling's Formula

By Stirling's approximation for the factorial, we have n ! n n 2 π n e n \frac{n!}{n^n} \sim \frac{\sqrt{2\pi n}}{e^n} and by an elementary argument 2 n 4 + 1 5 n 5 + 1 2 5 n \frac{2n^4+1}{5n^5+1} \sim \frac{2}{5n}

Since also the two-variable function f ( x , y ) = x y f(x,y) = x^y is continuous on x > 0 x>0 , we have lim n ( n ! n n ) 2 n 4 + 1 5 n 5 + 1 = lim n ( 2 π n e n ) 2 5 n = ( 1 e ) 2 5 lim n ( 2 π n ) 1 5 n \lim_{n\to\infty} \left(\frac{n!}{n^n}\right)^{\frac{2n^4+1}{5n^5+1}} = \lim_{n\to\infty} \left(\frac{\sqrt{2\pi n}}{e^n}\right)^{\frac{2}{5n}} = \left(\frac{1}{e}\right)^{\frac{2}{5}} \cdot \lim_{n\to\infty} (2\pi n)^{\frac{1}{5n}}

This last limit can be evaluated using L'Hopital's rule as (writing exp ( x ) = e x \exp(x) = e^{x} ) lim n ( 2 π n ) 1 5 n = lim n exp ( ln ( 2 π n ) 5 n ) = exp ( lim n ln ( 2 π n ) 5 n ) = exp ( lim n 1 / n 5 ) = exp ( 0 ) = 1 \lim_{n\to\infty} (2\pi n)^{\frac{1}{5n}} = \lim_{n\to\infty} \exp\left(\frac{\ln(2\pi n)}{5n}\right) = \exp\left(\lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{\ln(2\pi n)}{5n}\right) = \exp\left(\lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{1/n}{5}\right) = \exp(0) = 1

Therefore, the original limit is ( 1 e ) 2 5 1 = ( 1 e ) 2 5 \left(\frac{1}{e}\right)^{\frac{2}{5}} \cdot 1 = \boxed{\left(\frac{1}{e}\right)^{\frac{2}{5}}}

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