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I am reading Houshang H. Sohrab's book: "Basic Real Analysis" (Second Edition).

I am focused on Chapter 2: Sequences and Series of Real Numbers ... ...

I need help with an aspect of the proof of Proposition 2.3.12 ...

Proposition 2.3.12 and its proof read as follows:

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In the above proof by Sohrab we read the following:

" ... ... Now if $$p \leq 1$$, then $$1 / n^p \geq 1 / n \ \forall \ n \in \mathbb{N}$$ ... "My question is ... how do we know this is true ... ?

Can someone please demonstrate how to prove that if $$p \leq 1$$, then $$1 / n^p \geq 1 / n \ \forall \ n \in \mathbb{N}$$ ...
Help will be much appreciated ...

Peter
 

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Peter said:
" ... ... Now if $$p \leq 1$$, then $$1 / n^p \geq 1 / n \ \forall \ n \in \mathbb{N}$$ ... "My question is ... how do we know this is true ... ?

Can someone please demonstrate how to prove that if $$p \leq 1$$, then $$1 / n^p \geq 1 / n \ \forall \ n \in \mathbb{N}$$ ...

If $p\le1$ then $q=p-1<0$ and so $n^q\le1$.
 
Olinguito said:
If $p\le1$ then $q=p-1<0$ and so $n^q\le1$.

Thanks for the reply Olinguito ...... but ... I do not follow ... can you give some more details please ...Peter
 
If $q$ is negative, then $n^q=e^{q\ln n}\le1$ for any positive integer $n$, is that not so?
 
Olinguito said:
If $q$ is negative, then $n^q=e^{q\ln n}\le1$ for any positive integer $n$, is that not so?
Hi Olinguito ...

It seems plausible that if $$q \lt 0$$ then $$n^q \lt 1$$ ... but how do we (formally and rigorously) prove it ... especially worrying, intuitively speaking, are those values $$-1 \lt q \lt 0$$ ...

... and then how do we demonstrate(formally and rigorously) that $$n^q \lt 1$$ implies $$1 / n^p \geq 1 / n \ \forall \ n \in \mathbb{N}$$ ..*** EDIT *** Can now see that $$n^q \lt 1$$ implies $$1 / n^p \geq 1 / n \ \forall \ n \in \mathbb{N}$$ ... indeed quite straightforward ... getting late here in Tasmania ...:(...
Sorry if I'm being a bit slow ...

Peter
 
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