Re: limit crash
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg33254] Re: limit crash
- From: Albert Retey <albert.retey at visualanalysis.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:08:41 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Visual Analysis AG
- References: <a6e4no$11j$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > > I checked this with Mathematica 4.1 for MacOS X and discovered something > rather curious. If I use the Front End to try to perform this > computation the kernel quits. However, if I run the kernel without the > FrontEnd I get: > > In[1]:= a=Log[Log[x*Exp[x*Exp[x]] + 1]] - Exp[Exp[1/x]]*Log[x] > > 1/x x > E E x > Out[1]= -(E Log[x]) + Log[Log[1 + E x]] > > In[2]:= Limit[a,x->Infinity] > > Out[2]= Infinity > For me (Linux on Athlon PC) it is the other way round, it works using the FrontEnd but not using the Kernel only. Only if I evaluate the symbol "a" between the definition and the Limit[], it works using the Kernel without the FrontEnd, too... strange... Albert