Let
and
. Prove that
.
Proof. Let
. For any
, there is
such that for
,
. Consider the set
. If
is empty, then the result immediately follows. So assume
is nonempty and choose any
. If
, then
, so
which is a contradiction. Thus
and
. Then

or
. Since
is continuous, this inequality implies
does not vanish at any point in
.
Now assume there is a point
and
such that
, Applying intermediate value theorem, we may assume
is in the neighborhood of
in
. By mean value theorem, there is
such that
. Since
cannot change its sign on
,
is strictly decreasing on
. Especially,
.
Now let
, where
on
. Then
,
or
.
Since
and
, we have
and
is strictly decreasing. So
must converge and we have

which contradicts that
converges.
So, for all
and
,
. This means
is monotone increasing on
. If
for all
, then
must converge to some
where
. But this implies
, leading to a contradiction. Hence
for some sufficient large
, and by our preceeding argument,
for all
. So
as
.