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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Integrate 1/lnx from e to inf

OpenStudy (zarkon):

it diverges to infinity

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Please write out

OpenStudy (zarkon):

I don't have time...I have to teach...try comparing 1/ln(x) to 1/x

OpenStudy (anonymous):

What Z's arguing is this. For x > 1\[0 < \ln x < x \ \implies 1/x < 1/\ln x\] Now consider the integral of 1/x from e to infinity does that integral exist? If it diverges to +infinity, then the integral over the same range of 1/ln x must as well.

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