TITLE: What is the limit $x\to+\infty$ of $x^n \cdot e^{-x}$?
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: What is the limit $x\to+\infty$ of $x^n \cdot e^{-x}$ ?  My guess is that it is $0$ because the exponential will go faster to $0$ than the $n$th power go to $+\infty$, but I don't see which theorem to apply to reach the result.
Thanks for any help !

REPLY [3 votes]: "My guess is that ... because the exponential will go faster to $0$ than the nth power go to $\infty$". This guess is actually based on the fact that $\lim_{x \to \infty}x^{n}e^{-x} = 0$ for all $n > 0$ and not the other way round.
As easy way out is to put $e^{x} = t$ so that $x = \log t$ and then $x^{n}/e^{x} = (\log t)^{n}/t$. Further if $t > 1$ then $$\log t = 2n\log t^{1/2n} \leq 2n(t^{1/2n} - 1) < 2nt^{1/2n}$$ so that $$0 < \frac{\log t}{t^{1/n}}< \frac{2n}{t^{1/2n}}$$ Using squeeze theorem we get that $(\log t)/t^{1/n} \to 0$ as $t \to \infty$ and hence $$(\log t)^{n}/t = ((\log t)/t^{1/n})^{n} \to 0$$