Name: rajesh

Who is asking: Other Level: All

Question:
what is greater 1999¹⁹⁹⁷ or 1997¹⁹⁹⁹. please explain the steps.

thanks

Are you a calculus student? If so, the easiest solution is to take the lagarithm of both sides of a^b ? b^a and notice that the problem reducuces to determining whether the function ln x / x is increasing or decreasing when x = 1997.