Solution

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For any fixed , as . For example, l'Hôpital's rule applied to gives the limit zero. With , this implies eventually. Therefore
for all sufficiently large . The comparison series diverges by the integral test for convergence, since
The comparison test for series gives
One 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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