proof of upper and lower bounds to binomial coefficient
Let be natural numbers. We’ll first prove theinequality
We rewrite as
Since each of the parenthesized factors lies between and , we have
Since all the terms of the series are positive when is a positive real number, each term must be smaller than the whole sum; in particular, this implies that, for any non-negative integer , we have . Rearranging this slightly,
Multiplying this inequality by the previous inequality for the binomial coefficient yields
To conclude the proof we show that
(1) |
Since each left-hand factor in (1) is , we have.Since , we immediately get
And from
we obtain