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Repost --- Another limit problem

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  • Subject: [mg67725] Repost --- Another limit problem
  • From: Virgil Stokes <vs at it.uu.se>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 06:51:54 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

It seems the characters were fouled up (at least when I read my own 
posting), so here it is again, and hopefully
the characters are being converted correctly this time.

I am trying to evaluate the limit of the following expression as s goes to infinity,


\!\(\((1 + \[Sum]\+\(k = 0\)\%\(s - 1\)\((\((s\ \
\[Rho])\)\^k\/\(k!\))\)/\((\((s\ \[Rho])\)\^s\/\(\(s!\) \((1 - \
\[Rho])\)\))\))\)\^\(-1\)\)


where, \[Rho]\ (Real) < 1, s (Integer) > 0. I am quite sure that the limit is 
0; but, I am unable to get this result using Mathematica 5.2.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

--V. Stokes






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