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ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2016/discrete-mathematics-continuous-mathematics-and-probability-resit/3/d/ii/solution
Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2016 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics and probability (resit) 3 d ii Solution by
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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 yieldsFor 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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