TITLE: What's a good class of functions for bounding/comparing ratios of complicated logarithms?
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: I have this goofy series $\sum \limits_{n=2}^\infty \frac{ \log_2 \left[ n \log_2^2 n \right]}{n \log_2^2 n}$ that Wolfram Alpha tells me diverges by the comparison test (and indeed, in the larger problem I'm working on I need to prove that the expression containing it diverges), but I'm struggling to find a good divergent lower bound.
I can't just throw away all the inner logarithms--then I run into the theorem $\lim \limits_{x \rightarrow \infty} \frac{\log_a x}{x^b} \rightarrow 0 \;\forall b > 0$.
So I'm looking at things like $\frac{\log_2 \left[ n^3 \right]}{n \log_2^2 n}$ (larger, unfortunately), $\frac{\log_2 \left[ n^3 \right]}{n^2 \log_2 n}$ (converges), and $\frac{\log_2 \left[ n^2 \right]}{n \log_2^2 n}$ (still too large).
Is there a more general class or form I can use to find a simple divergent lower bound, instead of stabbing in the dark?

REPLY [2 votes]: Hope it's not too far off topic but would like to follow up @T.Bongers' answer by sharing my favourite comparison of logarithms and powers.  (And it's too long to fit in a comment.)
Consider the graph of $y=x^{1/10}$.  You can calculate that if $x=1000000$ then $y$ is a bit less than $4$.  Imagine drawing the graph on a scale of $1$ unit equals $1$ millimetre.  Then although the graph is always increasing, it's like walking up a hill (if that's the right word) which climbs $4$ millimetres in a kilometre.  This is clearly a climb which you would not even notice - you would think it was totally flat.
So, $y=x^{1/10}$ increases incredibly, almost unimaginably, slowly...
...but $y=\ln x$ increases even more slowly than that!!  Certainly $\ln x$ is larger than $x^{1/10}$ for small values of $x$.  If you draw both graphs on the same axis for say $1\le x\le1000$, you will get a very misleading impression - eventually, $x^{1/10}$ takes over and is larger than $\ln x$.
How long does it take for this to happen?  Well, with a bit of trial and error you can find that the crossover point is approximately $x=4\times10^{15}$.  If you (try to) draw this at a scale of $10$ centimetres for a unit - suitable for a blackboard in class - you find that the crossover point is about $3000$ times further away than the sun!
Hope this helps to illustrate how unimaginably slowly (I didn't say "almost" this time) the logarithm function grows.