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For natural logarithms and sufficiently large , take the logarithm of the positive expression:
Set . Then . The exponential function grows faster than : for example, its power series gives for , so . In particular, eventually . Exponentiating yields
For logarithms to a fixed base , the natural logarithm of the left side is , still smaller than eventually. The big O notation conclusion is therefore independent of that base choice.

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