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A geometric bound for tails of the exponential series
Statement
If , , and , then
Facts & Assumptions
Given: with the stated inequality.
Factorials satisfy the recurrence; the canonical embedding preserves products and order and is strictly increasing on naturals (The factorial and the falling factorial , defined by recursion in , The canonical natural of a field, Canonical naturals are positive and strictly increasing).
A geometric tail of ratio sums to (For , , and for the series diverges).
Proof
For , strict increase gives , and the factorial recurrence gives that the ratio of consecutive absolute terms is .
Thus the -th term after is at most the first tail term times .
Sum the geometric majorant using [L2] to obtain the displayed bound.
Depends on
- The real exponential function and the number $e$ by a power series
- For $|r| < 1$, $\sum_{k \ge 0} r^k = 1/(1-r)$, and for $|r| \ge 1$ the series diverges
- The factorial $n!$ and the falling factorial $n^{\underline{k}}$, defined by recursion in $\mathbb{N}$
- Finite sums and finite products, by recursion
- Laws of finite sums and finite products
- The canonical natural $\iota(n) = n \cdot 1_F$ of a field
- Canonical naturals are positive and strictly increasing
Used by
- The elementary numerical bound 2<e<3 Corollary
- The number e is irrational Theorem
Dependency tree · next 3 levels
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Sources
- MIT OpenCourseWare 18.100B Real Analysis, Spring 2025 full lecture notes (standard reference, not scraped)
- J. Lebl, Basic Analysis, Analytic Functions (standard reference, not scraped)
- MIT Proofs in Analysis and Probability, Lecture 2 notes (standard reference, not scraped)
- LSU MATH 7230, Homework 1 (standard reference, not scraped)