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The Exponential Function Dominates Every Power

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Let R\mathbb{R} be the real numbers, an ordered field with order ≤\le, and let exp⁡\exp be the exponential function. Let N\mathbb{N} be the set of natural numbers, with successor map SS as in that definition, let ιR:N→R\iota_{\mathbb{R}}:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{R} be the canonical map of R\mathbb{R}, as in clause 3 of The Real Numbers and Standard Notation (written explicitly here, rather than by the abbreviation of that clause, because natural numbers occur below both as exponents and as elements of R\mathbb{R}), and let powers be the natural number powers of R\mathbb{R}. For t∈Rt\in\mathbb{R} with t≠0t\ne 0 let t−1t^{-1} denote the multiplicative inverse of tt.

Let m∈Nm\in\mathbb{N} and put μ=ιR(S(m))\mu=\iota_{\mathbb{R}}(S(m)). Then 0<μ0<\mu, and

tmexp⁡(−t)≤μS(m) t−1for every t∈R with 0<t.t^{m}\exp(-t)\le \mu^{S(m)}\,t^{-1}\qquad\text{for every }t\in\mathbb{R}\text{ with }0<t.

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