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The wikipedia article is trivial nonsense. The wikipedias "comparison test" has a proof which, as far as I can tell, makes use of the comparison to prove the comparison.
Saying that a_n < b_n and therefore that A_n < B_n is obvious and intuitive, but by no means rigorous.

Consider using A_n < B_n

Here is the link that proves the direct comparison test… http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CCwQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fplanetmath.org%2Fencyclopedia%2FProofOfLimitComparisonTest2.html&ei=oHPZTvfGB8XL0QHR8ajZDQ&usg=AFQjCNFgmxooNQif6DyVOzD3mg9jUab5MA&sig2=IJtj99zYJEgC-ElpZZfGdg

Good luck!

Russia overall is considered to be a developing country, and the UN ranks it at 66, so on a similar level as Malaysia.

However, Russia is a big country, and Moscow is undoubtedly the wealthiest part.

How would you say Moscow compares in wealth, development and standard of living in comparison to major first world cities around the world?

Moscow (Russian: Москва́, tr. Moskva) is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent. Moscow is the northernmost city on Earth to have a population above 10,000,000, the most populous city in Europe, and the sixth largest city proper in the world. Its population, according to the preliminary results of the 2010 census, is 11,514,330. Based on Forbes 2011, Moscow had 79 billionaires, displacing New York as the city with the greatest number of billionaires.

Moscow is situated on the Moskva River in the Central Federal District of European Russia. In the course of its history the city has served as the capital of a progression of states, from the medieval Grand Duchy of Moscow and the subsequent Tsardom of Russia to the Soviet Union. Moscow is the site of the Moscow Kremlin, an ancient fortress that is today the residence of the Russian President and of the executive branch of the Government of Russia. The Kremlin is also one of several World Heritage Sites in the city. Both chambers of the Russian parliament (the State Duma and the Federation Council) also sit in Moscow.

The city is served by an extensive transit network, which includes four international airports, nine railroad terminals, and the Moscow Metro, second only to Tokyo in terms of ridership and recognised as one of the city’s landmarks due to the rich and varied architecture of its 182 stations.

Over time, Moscow has acquired a number of epithets, most referring to its size and preeminent status within the nation: The Third Rome (Третий Рим), The Whitestone One (Белокаменная), The First Throne (Первопрестольная), The Forty Forties (Сорок Сороков). In old Russian the word "Сорок" (forty) also meant a church administrative district, which consisted of about forty churches. The demonym for a Moscow resident is Moskvitch, rendered in English as Muscovite.

The series is (n+1) / ((n)(n^-1))

What do you use as a comparison?
The n^-1 is supposed to be n^(1/2) . My mistake.

(n + 1) / ((n)(n^(1/2))
= (n + 1) / (n^(3/2))
= n/(n^(3/2)) + 1/(n^(3/2))
= n^(-1/2) + n^(-3/2) > n^(-1/2)

Does n^(-1/2) converge?
By the integral test, n^(1/2) converges iff ∫(x^(-1/2))dx from 1 to ∞ is finite.
∫x^(-1/2)dx from 1 to ∞
= 2x^(1/2) from 1 to ∞
= lim_{a -> ∞} of 2(a^(1/2)) – 2(1^(1/2))
= ∞.
As the integral does not converge, n^(-1/2) does not converge.
Thus, as n^(-1/2) < n^(-1/2) + n^(-3/2), the latter also diverges by the comparison test.

I have to write an comparison/contrast essay and I have no ideas where to begin. I’m trying to think about food in general, but my mind is blank. Help please?

Eat to live, or live to eat.

I made a venn diagram and all that but I’m not sure how I would start off the intro, as in the first hook sentence starting off the whole essay, I’m very confused and i’m supposed to write a comparison and contrast essay on o the Flood of Gilgamesh and Noas Ark.

As with most essays of this type, you would start of with a paragraph summary that covers the main points you are going to make in your essay. You might also like to allude to the controversy over the allegation that Genesis "plagiarizes" or borrows the story from Mesopotamia (See also the flood stories in the Eridu Genesis and the Epic of Atrahasis). One way to start off your essay might be to startle your readers with the similarity between the two stories eg. We all know the story about an ancient hero who is told by God to build a great boat to escape a worldwide deluge. Taking representatives of all kinds of animals on board, he survives a great storm, sends out birds to find land and eventually settled on a mountain top. After accepting his sacrifice God vows never again to send a flood to destroy the world. The thing about this story that we may not realize is that it is found in a Mesopotamian work called the Epic of Gilgamesh and predates the Genesis flood story by at least one thousand years.

If you look up Gilgamesh on Yahoo answers and arrange the answers by "newest" you will find this question answered many times over. I’ll leave you to reach your own conclusions on this. However, I would advise that you veer away from two very unbalanced viewpoints on this whole issue. The first opinion is that Genesis does something dishonest by copying another flood story, the implication being that the flood story is completely discredited and of no value. This extreme view often creates the impression that there is no difference between the stories in Genesis and the Mesopotamian sources. It is true that Genesis has a closer literary relationship with the Gilgamesh flood story than with any other, and many expert scholars are convinced that Genesis is dependent upon the much older Mesopotamian one. However, this viewpoint generally ignores the strong theological differences between the stories and is ignorant to the possibility that there may be a specific purpose to this retelling.

The other view to avoid has a few variations. These include the opinions that any similarities are coincidental, that Gilgamesh must actually be dependent on Genesis (an impossibility based on manuscript evidence), or that Gilgamesh is a distorted pagan memory of the actual event described in Genesis (again an impossimpossibility on geological and archaeological evidence).

There are two approaches that may help you in your essay. One is to ignore the fine detail and ask what the thematic differences are between the two stories. Why is the flood sent? What happens after the flood between the gods and humans? Is the flood a good thing in either story? What is the attitude of the gods to the destruction? What laws are implemented in the aftermath of the flood? Secondly you need to ask why there is such a strong Mesopotamian flavor to the book of Genesis. The garden of Eden is the source of the Tigris and Euphrates, the story of Adam and Eve has multiple parallels with that of Enkidu and Shamhat in Gilgamesh, Nimrod is singled out as the founder of great Mesopotamian cities, the flood stories are based on the same underlying framework, Abraham comes from Ur, the story of the city and tower of Babel is set in Mesopotamia and so on. If you look at the other references to Mesopotamia and the reason that stories such as the "civilization" of Enkidu are reformulated in Genesis, this should give you some insight into what is happening in the flood story.