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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ia Paper 1 9F ii Solution by
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For any fixed , as . For example, l'Hôpital's rule applied to gives the limit zero. With , this implies eventually. Thereforefor all sufficiently large . The comparison series diverges by the integral test for convergence, sinceThe comparison test for series givesOne may obtain the same growth bound by extending the given logarithmic estimate to real through and choosing any exponent smaller than ; no special convergence test for iterated logarithms is needed.
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