Does #a_n=x^n/(n!) # converge for any x?
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In fact you just need to remember that #n! > > > x^n# when #n -> oo# for every #x in RR^+#
So the answer is yes
but here the demonstration
study #lim_(n->oo)a_n^(1/n)#
its #x/(n!)^(1/n)#
the numerator don't depend of n so we study the denominator
#lim_(n->oo)(n!)^(1/n)#
this limit is pretty hard, by intuition you can imagine it will be #=1#
you can rewrite
#lim_(n->oo)e^(1/nlnn!)#
so we need to study #lim_(n->oo)1/nln(n!)#
hopefully we have this awesome approximation
Stirling approximation
so we study
#lim_(n->oo)1/n(nln(n)-n)#
which is #lim_(n->oo)(ln(n)-1) = oo#
so we proved that #lim_(n->oo)(n!)^(1/n) = oo#
so
# lim_(n->oo)a_n^(1/n) = 0# for every #x in RR^+#
So by Cauchy-Hadamard Theorem
radius of convergence #R = oo#
Also, the Maclaren power series representation for the series #e^x=sum_(n=0)^oo x^n/(n!)#. So hence this power series converges to a function which is defined for all #x in RR#. Hence the corresponding sequence #x_n=(x^n)/(n!)# must also converge for all #x in RR#.
Alternatively, one could show that this is a Cauchy sequence since #AA epsilon >0, EE k in NN, # such that #m,n >= k => |x_m - x_n | < epsilon #
Hence it converges since by a theorem, any sequence #(x_n) in RR# is convergent if and only if it is a Cauchy sequence.