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On Mill's Ratio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Baikunth N. Gupta
Baikunth N. Gupta
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
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Abstract

The inequalities related to Mill's Ratio were conjectured true by Birnbaum (2) and were proved by Murty (4) for sufficiently large x > 0. In the present paper, these are proved for all finite x and have been used to calculate an upper limit for Mill's Ratio over the range x > – 1.

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Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , March 1970 , pp. 363 - 364
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1970

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