Re: Limits of Nested Expressions
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg80733] Re: Limits of Nested Expressions
- From: Peter Breitfeld <phbrf at t-online.de>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:39:34 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <fb5oai$8mv$1@smc.twtelecom.net>
Yaroslav Bulatov schrieb: > Is it possible to compute the following limit in Mathematica 6? > Limit[Nest[Sqrt[5 + #]&, 5, n], n -> Infinity] > > It used to be possible through Calculus`Limit package, which seems to > be gone > > If you want a numeric result, you may consider FixedPoint: FixedPoint[Sqrt[5+#]&,5.0] ------> 2.79129 Gruss Peter -- ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== Peter Breitfeld, Bad Saulgau, Germany -- http://www.pBreitfeld.de