Friday, January 12, 2018

real analysis - How can this step in the proof that pi is irrational be explained?



I was going through a proof of the irrationality of π and came across this step:




p2n+1q22nn!<1 for sufficiently large n, with p,q being positive integers.



This fact was given. I tried to prove it for myself, but didn't manage to get it. Could someone please give me some hints on how to obtain this result? Thanks in advance!


Answer



Let us define a sequence {an} by an=p2n+1q(22nn!) then we can see that an+1an=p2n+3q{22n+2(n+1)!}q(22nn!)p2n+1=p24(n+1) so that the ratio an+1/an tends to 0 as n. It follows by the ratio test that the series an is convergent and hence its nth term an tends to zero as n. It is now clear that we can find a positive integer N such that an<1 for all n>N.


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