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Re: Re: Re: Limit of an expression?

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  • Subject: [mg67651] Re: [mg67608] Re: [mg67557] Re: Limit of an expression?
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:38:34 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <NDBBJGNHKLMPLILOIPPOGEOJFAAA.djmp@earthlink.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I don't think you need to modify anything you just need to understand  
a little about how your e-mail program works. You must have some  
where in your mail program a menu called TextEncoding. From that menu  
you can select Unicode and the message will become perfectly legible.  
Only after you set correct encoding in your mail program you can copy  
and paste: not before!
Mathematica as well as most modern programs use Unicode as default  
encoding whenever they see a non-ASCII character in the message. The  
alternative is to have to actually retype all formulas which use  
Greek letters, replacing λ by lambda etc. Well, personally, I do not  
think I have enough free time for this.
I also I think it is not too much to expect that people using  
sophisticated programs like Mathematica learn the the basics of how  
modern text based applications work: this has been the standard  
already for years (and in Mathematica since v. 5).
Moreover, I do not do this deliberately. If you past into mail  
program a Greek letter form Mathematica or the sign â?¤  the entire  
message will be posted as Unicode. These messages when they return to  
me sometimes appear illegible (because of the way the mail server is  
set up) but one mouse move to the TextEncoding menu makes them  
legible. I do not think it is to much to exact that Mathgroup users  
should learn to use their e-mail programs.

Try doing what I suggest and you will see it is really no effort at  
all. Unless of course you mail application is more than 5 years old,  
which I find hard to believe.

Regards

Andrzej Kozlowski


On 3 Jul 2006, at 01:05, David Park wrote:

> Andrzej,
>
> A lot of people, including me, cannot copy and paste the code you  
> post. I
> think it will be difficult to get people to modify their email  
> systems. If
> possible you should consider trying to post your code to MathGroup  
> in the
> old fashioned ASCII text.
>
> David Park
> djmp at earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
>
> From: Andrzej Kozlowski [mailto:akoz at mimuw.edu.pl]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
>
> On 30 Jun 2006, at 17:15, David W.Cantrell wrote:
>
>>> (Limit[(1 - E^((-μ)*t*
>>>          (s - 1 - λ/μ)))/
>>>       (s - 1 - λ/μ),
>>>      t -> Infinity,
>>>      Assumptions ->
>>>       {μ > 0 && #1[s,
>>>          1 + λ/μ]}] & ) /@
>>>    {Greater, Equal, Less}
>>>
>>> {-(μ/(λ - s*μ + μ)),
>>>    0, Infinity}
>>
>> Much of the above is illegible to me, but I'm guessing that the
>> middle case
>> is equivalent to
>
>
> Actually, the above should be perfectly legible to you and anyone
> using a reasonably modern e-mail program.  All you have to do is to
> make sure that the message is displayed with Unicode (UTF-8)
> encoding. Your e-mail program should normally be able to choose the
> right encoding automatically but if it does not do so you should be
> able to change it manually.
>
> [It is better if posters do not send messages in this form
> in the first place -moderator]
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
>
>


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