Friday, June 28, 2019

real analysis - Show that the sequence left(frac2nn!right) has a limit.





Show that the sequence (2nn!) has a limit.



I initially inferred that the question required me to use the definition of the limit of a sequence because a sequence is convergent if it has a limit |2nn!L|<ϵ



I've come across approaches that use the squeeze theorem but I'm not sure whether its applicable to my question. While I have found answers on this site to similar questions containing the sequence, they all assume the limit is 0.



I think I need to show anan+1,n1, so



$$a_{n+1} = \frac{2^{n+1}}{(n+1)!}=\frac{2}{n+1}\frac{2^{n}}{n!}


A monotonic decreasing sequence is convergent and this particular sequence is bounded below by zero since its terms are postive. I'm not sure whether or not I need to do more to answer the question.


Answer



It is easy to prove that
k=12nn!<


e.g. with the ratio test you have
an+1an=n!2n2n+1(n+1)!=2n+10

Then limn2nn! has to be 0







If you do not know anything about series you might assert, that n!>3n if n>N0 for some fixed N0N. Therefore you have for those n
0<2nn!<2n3n=(23)n0


Thus limn2nn!=0


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