At the origin the needed partial derivatives are
The Taylor series through total degree two is therefore
which gives
Here total degree is what matters: is quartic, not quadratic. The exact omitted polynomial is , which verifies the stated Big O notation remainder directly.
Here are fixed integers. The term has exponential growth, whereas has fixed-degree polynomial growth and is linear. Since a fixed-base exponential eventually dominates every fixed-degree polynomial,
Hence the requested Big O notation bound, with its matching lower order, is .
Dividing by gives . Thus the quadratic term controls the growth:
The sharper Big theta notation also supplies the requested Big O notation bound.
For sufficiently large positive , the logarithm identities give
After division by , the right-hand side tends to one. Thus gives the asymptotic order in Big theta notation and Big O notation.
The number is fixed. By Big O notation, for each there are constants and such that when . Take . For , positivity gives
The constants in parentheses are independent of , proving . If , the second sum is empty and , which satisfies the same upper bound.
Use the same integer rounding in a divide-and-conquer recurrence, now with root cost . Since ,
Choose and use strong induction with inductive hypothesis . Both child sizes are positive and less than , so
The same factor occurs for the exact fractional split. Therefore in Big O notation.
The printed fractional arguments require a size convention. To make the recurrence relation precise on positive integers, take a bounded base case and use , for . This integer rounding in a divide-and-conquer recurrence gives . The unrounded calculation is the special split fraction .
Prove by strong induction. Put , choose , and choose . The base case follows. The entropy potential for a divide-and-conquer recurrence gives
The last step uses . This closes the inductive hypothesis and proves in Big O notation.
Suppose the definition of big O notation held with constants . Choose an odd integer . At this input, and , so the required inequality would be , a contradiction. Thus
The infinitely many even inputs, where , cannot repair the failure on odd inputs because the bound must hold for every sufficiently large input.
For , implies , and also . Consequently
The definition of big O notation holds with :
For functions , big O notation means
Using the natural logarithm and exponential function, . Since , for every we have . The witnesses therefore prove
A direct mathematical induction proves . The base cases and hold. If the bound holds at and , then the Fibonacci recurrence gives
Thus the definition of big O notation holds with , proving
Count the final division producing zero as an iteration, and let the total be . The terminal product alone gives no useful bound. Instead apply (i) to each nonterminal product, which is a positive integer and hence at least .
If , the penultimate product satisfies
As is an integer, this implies
For , the same bound holds since implies . In particular the Euclidean algorithm uses divisions, in big O notation. The convention that includes the final zero-producing division explains the one-step offset in the argument.
Use the Taylor series with . Since begins at cubic order and begins at sixth order, through cubic terms the Taylor series is
The linear and quadratic coefficients are zero. The stronger remainder , in big O notation, follows because the fourth-order term is also zero; the next term is .
The relevant derivatives at are
Thus the cubic Taylor polynomial is
In fact the exact expansion is , so the omitted term has order in big O notation.
Take , so but . The ratio is unbounded, precluding any eventual constant upper bound in big O notation. False: in general . This is a counterexample involving function composition, not pointwise addition.
Positivity gives . Thus for every positive , meeting big O notation with constant and threshold . True: .
Since , both and . Therefore for every positive . The definition of big O notation is satisfied with constant and threshold . True: .
For each fixed positive integer , part (i) gives . This meets big O notation with constant and threshold . True: for fixed . The constant may depend on ; no claim uniform in a varying is required.