Let x 0 = 1 . Define by recursion x n + 1 = sin ( x n ) . Calculate lim n → ∞ n x n .
Give your answer as the number rounded to 3 decimal places behind the decimal point.
Note: The trigonometric function is in radians.
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I maked a mistake keeping private my solution, now I publish it. We have to calculate: L = n → ∞ lim n x n with: x 0 = 1 , x n + 1 = s i n ( x n ) = s i n n x 0 we have the asymptotic expansIon for the sine iterate:
s i n n x 0 = s i n ( x n ) = n 3 { 1 − O ( n l n ( n ) ) } see the link below: Asymptotic Expansions Of Iterates Of Some Classical Functions so: L = n → ∞ lim n n 3 = 3
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Good approach, but for this approach you should ought to know the asymptomtic expansions of interates.
Unfortunately we can't apply this approach for written examinations , due to lack of rigor :)
This problem is nice example of Stolz-Cesàro Theorem. For anyone, who don't know about this , here it is :
Let ( X n ) , ( Y n ) be two sequences that satisfy the conditions:
- ( Y n ) strictly increases to + ∞ ,
- n → ∞ lim Y n − Y n − 1 X n − X n − 1 = a
Then n → ∞ lim Y n X n = a .
Now , note that x → 0 lim x 2 sin 2 x x 2 − sin 2 x = 3 1 Therefore n → ∞ lim ( x n + 1 2 1 − x n 2 1 ) = 3 1
Now, taking Y n = n and, X n = x n 2 1 and using Stolz-Cesàro Theorem, we have n → ∞ lim n x n 2 1 = 3 1 ⟹ n → ∞ lim n x n = 3
I've used c++ programming to find the result by putting arbitrarily large value in input which gave me a good approximation about 1.728.
here's my program..
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int main() { float x=1; float a[10000]; float c=1; int n=9000; for(int i=1; i<=n;i++) { a[0]=1; a[i+1]=sin(a[i]); x=a[i+1]; } c=sqrt(n)*x; cout<<c; return 0; } try it out//.
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Let we have the limit as :
L = lim n → ∞ n x n
Also L = lim n → ∞ n + 1 x n + 1
Now removing the limits I am taking some n arbitarily large
Since n is way too large we have :
n + 1 ≈ n ( 1 + 2 n 1 )
Also x n + 1 = s i n ( x n ) also since x n is way too small we have
s i n ( x n ) ≈ x n − 6 x n 3
So using these we have
L = n x n ( 1 + 2 n 1 ) ( 1 − 6 x n 2 )
Also L = n x n using this we get :
1 = 1 + 2 n 1 − 6 x n 2
(Note : I have neglected the term 1 2 n − x n 2 here because it is too small)
So we get :
n x n 2 = 3 = L 2
⇒ L = 3