Re: Limit of list
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- Subject: [mg57527] Re: Limit of list
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 04:59:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <d79ejm$lb1$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
Guy Israeli <guyi1 at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> Is there a way to find out the convergence point of a list of numbers?
>
> for example if I have
>
> {1,2,5,6,8,9,10,11,10,11,12,11,12.. and so on}
>
> it will give me something around 10-12
Try SequenceLimit:
SequenceLimit[{1,2,5,6,8,9,10,11,10,11,12,11,12}]
Also, if your list is entering a cycle there have been previous
MathGroup postings on methods for detecting cycles.
Cheers,
Paul
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