Re: A bug of limit?
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- Subject: [mg42347] Re: [mg42326] A bug of limit?
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 06:36:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 09:45 PM, Rex_chaos wrote: > Take the limit of (Sqrt(n^4 + n + 1) - n^2)*(n + 3) > when n infinity, mathematica give the result is -1/2 > However, the correct answer should be 1/2 > > > This now works correctly in Matheamtica 5.0 (you do get 1/2). In earlier versions you can use instead of Limit: (Sqrt[n^4 + n + 1] - n^2)*(n + 3) + O[n, Infinity]^3 which will also tell you the right answer. Andrzej Kozlowski Yokohama, Japan http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/ http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/