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### How to compute $\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}e^{-n}\left(1+n+\frac{n^2}{2!}\cdots+\frac{n^n}{n!}\right)$ [duplicate]

There is a probabilistic method to solve it. But I am not familiar with probability. I am trying to compute it by analytic method, such as using L Hospital's rule or Stolz formula, but they are not ...
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### Limit using Poisson distribution [duplicate]

Show using the Poisson distribution that $$\lim_{n \to +\infty} e^{-n} \sum_{k=1}^{n}\frac{n^k}{k!} = \frac {1}{2}$$
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### Is the sequences$\{S_n\}$ convergent? [duplicate]

Let $$S_n=e^{-n}\sum_{k=0}^n\frac{n^k}{k!}$$ Is the sequences$\{S_n\}$ convergent? The following is my answer,but this is not correct. please give some hints. For all $x\in\mathbb{R}$, ...
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### Find lim$_{n \to \infty} \sum _{ k =0}^ n \frac{e^{-n}n^k}{k!}$ [duplicate]

We need to find out the limit of, lim$_{n \to \infty} \sum _{ k =0}^ n \frac{e^{-n}n^k}{k!}$ One can see that $\frac{e^{-n}n^k}{k!}$ is the cdf of Poisson distribution with parameter $n$. Please ...
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### Expected number of tosses before you see a repeat.

Suppose we roll a fair die until some face has appeared twice. For instance, we might have a run of rolls 12545 or 636. How many rolls on average would we make? What if we roll until a face has ...
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### Evaluate the limit $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}{\frac{n!}{n^n}\bigg(\sum_{k=0}^n{\frac{n^{k}}{k!}}-\sum_{k=n+1}^{\infty}{\frac{n^{k}}{k!}}\bigg)}$

Evaluate the limit $$\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}{\frac{n!}{n^{n}}\left(\sum_{k=0}^{n}{\frac{n^{k}}{k!}}-\sum_{k=n+1}^{\infty}{\frac{n^{k}}{k!}} \right)}$$ I use ...
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### A limit involves series and factorials

Evaluate : $$\lim_{n\to \infty }\frac{n!}{{{n}^{n}}}\left( \sum\limits_{k=0}^{n}{\frac{{{n}^{k}}}{k!}-\sum\limits_{k=n+1}^{\infty }{\frac{{{n}^{k}}}{k!}}} \right)$$
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### Probability and Laplace/Fourier transforms to solve limits/integrals from calculus.

I've seen in some answers in Brilliant.org to some very complicated limits and integrals that uses probabilistic arguments (Let $X$ be a random variable from $[0,1]$... some examples are in those ...
Some work on it reveals the possibility of using gamma function. Is there any easy way to compute it? $$\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(\frac{1}{n!} \int_0^e \log^n x \ dx\right)^n$$