How prove that: $[12\sqrt[n]{n!}]{\leq}7n+5$,$n\in N$
I know $\lim_{n\to \infty } (1+ \frac{7}{7n+5} )^{ n+1}=e$ and $\lim_{n\to \infty } \sqrt[n+1]{n+1} =1$.
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2Are you using the floor function? – Mhenni Benghorbal Mar 11 '16 at 08:11
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you could use $n! \le n^{n+1/2}e^{1-n}$ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling's_approximation – Chip Mar 11 '16 at 09:13
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By AM-GM $$\frac{1+2 + 3 + \cdots + n}{n} \ge \sqrt[n]{1 \times 2 \times 3 \times \cdots \times n}$$
$$\implies \frac{n+1}2 \ge \sqrt[n]{n!} \implies 6n+6 \ge 12\sqrt[n]{n!}$$
But $7n+5 \ge 6n+6$ for $n \ge 1$...
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I'm assuming that $\left[x\right] $ is the floor function. For $n=1,2 $ works. So assume that $n\geq3 $. Using the bound $$n!\leq\sqrt{2\pi n}\left(\frac{n}{e}\right)^{n}e^{1/\left(12n\right)} $$ we have $$\left[12\sqrt[n]{n!}\right]\leq12\sqrt[n]{n!}\leq12\left(2\pi n\right)^{1/\left(2n\right)}e^{1/\left(12n^{2}\right)-1}n $$ so we have to prove now that $$12\left(2\pi n\right)^{1/\left(2n\right)}e^{1/\left(12n^{2}\right)-1}n\leq7n+5 $$ and we can prove it by induction. For $n=3 $ works, so we consider \begin{align*} 12\left(2\pi\left(n+1\right)\right)^{1/\left(2\left(n+1\right)\right)}e^{1/\left(12\left(n+1\right)^{2}\right)-1}\left(n+1\right)= & 12\left(2\pi\left(n+1\right)\right)^{1/\left(2\left(n+1\right)\right)}e^{1/\left(12\left(n+1\right)^{2}\right)-1}n\\ + & 12\left(2\pi\left(n+1\right)\right)^{1/\left(2\left(n+1\right)\right)}e^{1/\left(12\left(n+1\right)^{2}\right)-1}\tag{1} \end{align*} and since $12\left(2\pi x\right)^{1/\left(2x\right)}e^{1/\left(12x^{2}\right)-1}$ is a monotone decreasing function for $x\geq1 $ we observe that $$ 12\left(2\pi\left(n+1\right)\right)^{1/\left(2\left(n+1\right)\right)}e^{1/\left(12\left(n+1\right)^{2}\right)-1}n\leq12\left(2\pi n\right)^{1/\left(2n\right)}e^{1/\left(12n^{2}\right)-1}n $$ hence $$ (1)\leq7n+5+12\left(2\pi\left(n+1\right)\right)^{1/\left(2\left(n+1\right)\right)}e^{1/\left(12\left(n+1\right)^{2}\right)-1}\leq7\left(n+1\right)+5 $$ since $$12\left(2\pi\left(n+1\right)\right)^{1/\left(2\left(n+1\right)\right)}e^{1/\left(12\left(n+1\right)^{2}\right)-1}\leq12\left(8\pi\right)^{1/8}e^{1/192-1}<7. $$
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where did you get the upper bound for $n!$? I could find only this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling's_approximation. – Chip Mar 11 '16 at 09:15
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