Timeline for Which one is bigger: $9^{17}$ and $7^{19}$
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| May 25, 2016 at 21:45 | comment | added | Barry Cipra | Really nice! I've added a link to it in an answer to a related question, math.stackexchange.com/questions/1788290/… | |
| May 25, 2016 at 9:35 | comment | added | awllower | Thanks for the nice explanations! | |
| May 25, 2016 at 8:41 | comment | added | user284001 | @joriki Bravo Sir, bravo! | |
| May 25, 2016 at 8:34 | comment | added | joriki | @awllower: I started from both ends, I saw that both squares differ by just one from a multiple of $10$, so that left $70\cdot5^9\le9\cdot8^8$ to prove, then I realised that $5^3\approx2^7$, and that left $70\lt72$. | |
| May 25, 2016 at 8:24 | comment | added | awllower | May I ask how did you come up with these inequalities? Thanks! | |
| May 25, 2016 at 8:20 | vote | accept | hola | ||
| May 25, 2016 at 8:08 | history | answered | joriki | CC BY-SA 3.0 |