Given a sequence defined as
an=1√2+23+3√28+⋯⋯+n√n3+1
and I want to find the limit of this sequence.
I think the limit is positive infinity, but I don't know what I should do in order to prove this.
Please give me some hints on how to approach this, thanks to anybody who helps.
Answer
n√n3+1∼1√n,
hence
limn→∞an=∞.
Explanation, using series' methods
\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\dfrac{n}{\sqrt{n^3+1}}}{\dfrac1n}=1
and the series
\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac1{\sqrt{n}}
is divergent, hence also
\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{n}{\sqrt{n^3+1}}
id divergent, but a_n's are partial sums of this series.
More elementary explanation
It is easy to see, that
\dfrac{n}{\sqrt{n^3+1}}\geq\frac1n
for all n\geq2. Let
b_n=1+\frac12+\dots+\frac1n.
It is certainly increasing, hence it remains to show, that it is unbounded. Let us consider
b_{2^n}=1+\frac12+\left(\frac13+\frac14\right)+\left(\frac15+\dots+\frac18\right)+\dots +\left( \frac1{2^{n-1}+1}+\dots+\frac1{2^n}\right).
But the value in every parentheses is greater than \frac12, hence b^{2^n}>1+\frac{n}{2}.
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