Re: One to the power Infinity
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- Subject: [mg35947] Re: One to the power Infinity
- From: dseaman at seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 05:17:55 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Purdue University
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In article <aitfon$cfu$1 at smc.vnet.net>, <Matthias.Bode at oppenheim.de> wrote: >when fooling around with MATHEMATICA I found: >0^\[Infinity] => 0, as expected; >0.9^\[Infinity] => 0, as expected; >2^\[Infinity] => Infinity, as expected; >1^\[Infinity] => Indeterminate, unexpected. Naively expected: 1. >For which reason(s) is 1^\[Infinity] defined as Indeterminate? Looks like a bug to me. I would expect 1.^\[Infinity] to be indeterminate, where "1." is written with a decimal point to indicate that it is an approximate real number. However, Mathematica fails to distinguish here between the exact value "1" and the approximate value "1." -- Dave Seaman dseaman at purdue.edu Mumia Abu-Jamal's attorneys present evidence of innocence. <http://www.freemumia.com/>