Can you please explain why \begin{align*} \lim_{x\to 0^+}{x^{x^x}} &= 0 \end{align*}
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1What do you mean "find out first"? The notation clearly specifies the latter of the two. – Jon Claus Jul 09 '13 at 04:32
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1Find first the limit of $x^x$. The rest is easy. – Andrés E. Caicedo Jul 09 '13 at 04:35
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I knew it's 1, but I don't know how it became 1. – Mestica Jul 09 '13 at 04:39
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Related. – Cameron Buie Jul 09 '13 at 04:40
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Rewrite $x^x$ as $e^{x\ln x}$. You need to show that $x\ln x$ has limit $0$. Maybe to make it more familiar, let $x=e^{-y}$, where $y$ is getting big. – André Nicolas Jul 09 '13 at 04:44
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Ley $y=x^{x}$. Then taking log on both sides, $\ln y=x\ln x$. Taking $x\to0^+$, we can use L'Hopital on $\displaystyle{\frac{\ln x}{\frac{1}{x}}}$, as both the numerator and denominator approach $\infty$. We find the limit to be $0$. Hence, $y\to 1$.
Now take $z=x^{x^x}$. It is $0$ to the power something that approaches $1$. Hence, it is $0$.
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Since $\lim_{0^+}x\ln x=0$, we have $$ x^x=e^{x\ln x}=1+x\ln x+O(x^2(\ln x)^2) $$ near $0^+$. Whence $$ x^{x^x}=\exp(x^x\ln x)=\exp(\ln x+x(\ln x)^2+O(x^2(\ln x)^3)) $$ $$ =x\cdot\exp(x(\ln x)^2)\cdot\exp(O(x^2(\ln x)^3)). $$ Now since $\lim_{0^+}x(\ln x)^2=\lim_{0^+}x^2(\ln x)^3=0$, we get $$ \lim_{0^+}x^{x^x}=0\cdot \exp(0)\cdot \exp(0)=0. $$ Actually, the formula we have three lines above proves a little more namely: $$ x^{x^x}\sim_{0^+} x. $$
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We can find $\lim_{x \to \infty} x^x$ from the definition of $e$ , but beware I am going to be very informal. We have $$\lim_{x \to 0} (1+x)^{\frac 1x}=e$$
From this it follows that $\lim_{x \to 0} 1+x=\lim_{x \to 0} e^x$ . We subtract $1$ from both sides and get $\lim_{x \to 0} x=\lim_{x \to 0} e^x-1$ , or $\lim_{x \to 0} x^x=\lim_{x \to 0} (e^x-1)^x$ . We see that the quantity in the parenthesis is approaching one, and if you have $(anything)^0$ then it's also equal to $1$ . So then the parenthesis and the exponent seem to conspire to make the limit equal to $1$ (I'm sure that if you really needed to be formal you could prove this with the squeeze theorem). Now on to your problem.
I believe your question is $x^{(x^x)}$ . Let's substitute the limit we have just found into this limit. Since $\lim_{x \to 0} x^x=1$ , $\lim_{x \to 0} x^{x^x}=\lim_{x \to 0} x^1=0$
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