I'm interested in the limit of the fraction:
2000000x2x2 as x approaches infinity. Since the limit results in an indeterminate fraction of ∞∞, I was thinking of using l'hopitals rule but I don't think the derivatives would help much as the exponential would remain. How would this be computed?
Answer
We have 2000000<221, so 2000000x2x2<(221)x2x2=12x2−21x. Can you take it from here?
Generalization: There is nothing special about 2000000; it could have been any other positive number, including a number less than 1 ( having (negative number)x gets a little more tricky.
We want to show lim. No matter what a is, we can always find a number n such that a < 2^n. Then \displaystyle 0 \le \displaystyle \dfrac {a^x}{2^{x^2}} \le \dfrac {(2^n)^x}{2^{x^2}} = \dfrac {1}{2^{x^2-nx}}, so 0 \le \lim_{x \to \infty} \dfrac {a^x}{2^{x^2}} \le \lim_{x \to \infty} \dfrac {1}{2^{x^2-nx}}=0, so \displaystyle\lim_{x \to \infty} \dfrac {a^x}{2^{x^2}} =0
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