Why $\bigg\lfloor \frac{n^m}{\binom{n}{m}}\bigg\rfloor=m!$ for $n>(m+1)^{m+2}$?

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Let $n,m\in \mathbb{N}_0$. I need to prove that if $n>(m+1)^{m+2}$ then $$ \Bigg\lfloor \frac{n^m}{\binom{n}{m}}\Bigg\rfloor=m!.$$

Since $$ \frac{n^m}{\binom{n}{m}}=\frac{n^m(n-m)!}{n!}m!=m!+\bigg(\frac{n^m(n-m)!}{n!}-1\bigg)m!,$$ I have tried to see when $$\frac{n^m(n-m)!}{n!}-1<\frac{1}{m!}.$$

Can anyone help me or give me a hint? Thanks in advance!

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I think your approach is fine, so I've continued with it below.

We can rewrite the fraction $\frac{(n-m)!}{n!}$ as follows:

$$\frac{(n-m)!}{n!} = \frac{1}{n(n-1)(n-2)...(n-m+1)} = \prod_{k = 1}^m{\frac{1}{n-k+1}}$$

And $n^m$ can be written as

$$\prod_{k = 1}^m{n}$$

Then combining the products gives

$$\frac{n^m(n-m)!}{n!} = \prod_{k = 1}^m{\frac{n}{n-k+1}} = \prod_{k = 1}^m{\left(1 + \frac{k - 1}{n-k+1}\right)}$$

which can be expanded out as

$$1 \cdot \left(1 + \frac{1}{n-1}\right) \cdot \left(1 + \frac{2}{n-2}\right) \cdot ... \left(1 + \frac{m-1}{n-m+1}\right)$$

Subtracting the 1 as you've done, leaves us with an expansion of $2^{m-1}$ terms (since each factor multiplies the number of terms by 2).

By inspection, we see that the largest possible size of a single term is $\frac{m-1}{n-m+1}$

Therefore, the remainder $\left(\frac{n^m(n-m)!}{n!} - 1\right)$ can be bounded by

$$2^m \cdot \frac{m}{n-m}$$

We want this to be less than $\frac{1}{m!}$, thus

$$2^m \cdot \frac{m}{n-m} < \frac{1}{m!}$$

From here, its quite easy to rearrange for n. Then taking logs of both sides, and applying Stirlings Formula gives you the bound

$$n > m^m$$

which is slightly better than the one in your question.

I hope this works for you, and was easy enough to follow :)