Re: limit problem
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- Subject: [mg58929] Re: [mg58910] limit problem
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 01:21:50 -0400 (EDT)
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On 23 Jul 2005, at 11:32, Chris Chiasson wrote: > Dear MathGroup, > Honestly, I see no reason why this should return "unevaluated" > instead of zero. > > FullSimplify[Limit[E^(-R t),t\[Rule]Infinity],Infinity>R>0&&Element > [R,Reals]] > > 5.2 on windows > > Regards, > -- > Chris Chiasson > http://chrischiasson.com/ > 1 (810) 265-3161 > > There is no "mathematical" reason of course but there is a "Mathematica reason". First note that Limit[E^((-R)*t), t -> Infinity, Assumptions -> R > 0] 0 which is, in fact, the only assumption you need. However, what happens in your case is that you ask first Mathematica to evaluate Limit without any assumptions on R. If Mathematica at this point returned a conditional answer in the form If[R>0,0,Limit[E^(-R t),t->Infinity]] or something of that kind than indeed you would have got: FullSimplify[If[R > 0, 0, Limit[E^(-(R*t)), t -> Infinity]], Infinity > R > 0 && R â?? Reals] 0 Unfortunately Mathematica returns an unconditional answer (the original input) and applying FullSimplify with assumptions has no effect because FullSimplify does not simplify Limits (I think!). Andrzej Kozlowski
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