Need help in proving an inequality related to logarithms

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I am self studying analytic number theory from class notes of a senior and in it I am unable to deduce an inequality which is not proved .

Assume $b(m) = \sum_{s, t} \frac{1} {log(s) log(t) } $with these 3 conditions:

  1. $2\leq s \leq n$
  2. $2\leq t \leq n$
  3. $s+t= m $

It is to be proved that if $m \leq n$, then $b(m) \geq (m-3) log^{-2} n $

Please help.

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If $n\ge m$ the sum consists of $m-3$ terms. Since $\log x$ for $x\ge2$ is positive increasing function $$ \frac1{\log s \log (m-s)}>\frac1{\log^2 m}.$$

Therefore: $$b(m)>\frac{m-3}{\log^2m}\ge\frac{m-3}{\log^2n}.$$