Re: piecewise vs which
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- Subject: [mg60167] Re: piecewise vs which
- From: Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 22:27:24 -0400 (EDT)
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Helen Read schrieb:
>
> Limit does indeed default to Direction->-1. Try, for example,
> Limit[Abs[x]/x,x->0]
>
> I don't like this at all. For purposes of teaching calculus students,
> where we are only concerned with real numbers and are not taking limits
> in the complex plane, I would like Limit to check from both directions.
>
Why don't you write a little function to test the equality of both
limits, like this:
tsLimit[expr_, limRule_] :=
Module[{right, left},
left = Limit[expr, limRule, Direction ->1];
right =Limit[expr, limRule, Direction -> -1];
If[left == right, right, Indeterminate]]
Then tsLimit[g[x],x->2] will return Indeterminate.
Gruss Peter
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