Approximating Fermi-Dirac Integrals?

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For Fermi-Dirac Integrals

$$\mathcal{F}_{j}(x)=\frac{1}{\Gamma(j+1)}\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{t^{j}}{e^{t-x}+1}~\mathrm{d}t,$$

we know that for $x\gg1,$ we can approximate

$$\mathcal{F}_{0}(x) \approx x$$

and

$$\mathcal{F}_{1}(x) \approx\frac{1}{2}x^{2}.$$

However, using numerical integration for obtaining the integrals, the function $2\mathcal{F}_{0}(x)-\mathcal{F}_{0}(x)^{2}$ converges to a constant threshold.

How can that be?