TITLE: Uncountability of faster-growing sequences of positive integer numbers
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: I found this problem but was unable to solve it. I just don't know what I'm missing. Here it is:
A sequence of positive integer numbers $\{b_i\}_{i = 0}^\infty$ is called faster growing than $\{a_i\}_{i = 0}^\infty$ if $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}\frac{a_n}{b_n} = 0$. Let the set $H$ satisfies the following condition: for every sequence $\alpha$ there exists another sequence $\beta \in H$ such that $\beta$ is faster growing than $\alpha$. Prove that $H$ is uncountable.
I tried to find some fundamental properties of this kind of sequences but without any success. Any help would be appreciated.

REPLY [4 votes]: The way to prove that $H$ must be uncountable is to show that if $S$ is any countable set of sequences, there is a sequence that grows faster than every sequence in $S$.
Let $S=\{\sigma_n:n\in\Bbb N\}$ be a countable set of sequences of positive integers. For $n\in\Bbb N$ let $\sigma_n=\left\langle m^{(n)}_k:k\in\Bbb N\right\rangle$; the superscripts are just labels to identify to which sequence a term belongs, not exponents. Now construct a new sequence $\sigma=\langle m_k:k\in\Bbb N\rangle$ by setting
$$m_k=k\max_{i\le k}m^{(i)}_k\;,$$
and verify that $\dfrac{m_k}{m^{(i)}_k}\ge k$ for all $k\ge i$, so that $\dfrac{m^{(i)}_k}{m_k}\le\dfrac1k$ for $k\ge i$ and hence
$$\lim_{k\to\infty}\frac{m^{(i)}_k}{m_k}=0$$ for each $i\in\Bbb N$.
In particular, if $H$ were countable, we could find a sequence growing faster than any sequence in $H$, contradicting the hypothesis on $H$.