Then
because .Let
.We find
(just). It follows that since the quadratic function is strictly increasing for positive x.The LHS is
and so we are done.]]>I missed that. I am sorry about that. Bob and I had a good discussion on that and it seems better to work backwards in that case. Even though they do work forwards a lot in inequality books.
Unfortunately, whatever brilliant idea I had about this problem 1 year ago, I can not remember it at all.
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