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Math 201 Extra Notes On 10.1

The document provides additional formulas and practice problems for limits involving exponents and factorials as n approaches infinity. It defines two new limits: the limit of ln(n)/n as n approaches infinity equals 0 for any constant c greater than 0, and the limit of n!/n as n approaches infinity equals 0. Several practice problems are worked out, including limits of expressions with exponents in the numerator and denominator. The document cautions that certain undefined limits in exponents, such as 1^infinity, 00, and infinity/0, require taking the natural logarithm.

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Math 201 Extra Notes On 10.1

The document provides additional formulas and practice problems for limits involving exponents and factorials as n approaches infinity. It defines two new limits: the limit of ln(n)/n as n approaches infinity equals 0 for any constant c greater than 0, and the limit of n!/n as n approaches infinity equals 0. Several practice problems are worked out, including limits of expressions with exponents in the numerator and denominator. The document cautions that certain undefined limits in exponents, such as 1^infinity, 00, and infinity/0, require taking the natural logarithm.

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Math 201 section 10.

Extra Formulas & Problems


ln n ln n
Formula 1++: lim c
 0 for any c  0. Example : lim 0.0001
0
n n
n n

n!
Formula 7: lim n
0 (see Exercise 63)
n 
n

Formula 8: lim n n! (Most students think the answer is 1 because lim n n  1. )
n n

n9 n
1) Great problem: Find lim ( )
n n2

9
(1  ) n
n9 n 9
n  e  e7
Fastest Solution: lim ( )  lim
n  n  2 n  2 2
(1  ) n e
n

REMINDER : 1 , 00 ,  0 are the undefined limits in exponents (why?) (Take their ln)

3
2)lim (1  ) n  1 !!!(undefined) 3
The answer is ofcourse e (by Formula 5).
n n

n9 n 
3)lim ( ) = 1 !!!(undefined) The answer here is e
7
(see Great problem 1 above)
n n2

4) lim 1n  1 because we are taking the limit of the sequence 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, ……….


n

The following method in taking limits of exponents is acceptable to me provided we do NOT run into
1 , 00 ,  0 (the Undefined limits in exponents). For example,

5n  1 n 5 
5) lim ( ) ( ) 
n 3n  2 3

3n  9 n 3 
6) lim ( ) ( ) 0
n 5n  2 5

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