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What is the answer?  [9^5,000 / 8^5,000] = ?  Thank you for help.

 Aug 20, 2017
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IT IS VERY LARGE NUMBER !!!.

 

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 Aug 20, 2017
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Well,you can use laws of indices to write this this as

(9/8)^5000   = (1.125)^5000  which is still a gigantic number.

If you now use the binomial theorem  and look at the first couple of terms you can see how quickly its series grows

We have ( 1 + x) ^n     = 1 +nx +[n(n-1)x^2]/2!    + [n(n-1)(n-2)x^3]/3! ...........

 

I'll just evaluate the first couple of terms to get

 

1  + 5000(0.125)  +[5000(4999)(0.125)^2]/2!       ......

= 1 + 625 + 195,273 ....

 

so by the time we only even get to the third term we are  in the hundreds of thousands. The 5000th term?  

 

Input (1.125)^5000 and see if you can make sense of the number! 

 Aug 20, 2017
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9^5,000 / 8^5,000

 

\(let\\ y=\frac{9^{5,000 }}{8^{5,000}}\\ y=(\frac{9}{8})^{5000}\\ logy=log(\frac{9}{8})^{5000}\\ logy=5000log(\frac{9}{8})\\\)

 5000*0.0511525224473813 = 255.7626122369065

 

\(logy= 255.7626122369065\\ 10^{logy}= 10^{255.7626122369065}\\ y= 10^{255}*10^{0.7626122369065}\\\)

 

10^0.7626122369065 = 5.7891158004869876

 

\(y=5.7891158004869876\times 10^{255}\\~\\ 9^{5,000}/8^{5,000}=5.7891158004869876\times 10^{255}\)

 Aug 21, 2017

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