Re: MathKernel Crash while calculating limit
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- Subject: [mg75618] Re: MathKernel Crash while calculating limit
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 05:25:30 -0400 (EDT)
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Ulrik Günther schrieb: > Hi everybody, > > during a calculation of a limit, MathKernel crashed. I tried the > following: > > Limit[((-2^(n - 1)*M)/(n!*L^(n - 1)))^(n/2), n -> (infinity)] > > After some seconds, Mathematica produced a beep, then I got a crash > report concerning MathKernel. I attached a full crash log to this > mail. Oh, and I'm using Mathematica (for Students) 5.2 on a PowerBook > G4 running MacOS 10.4.9. > Also tried calculating that limit without the constants L and M, this > time it worked. > > Maybe somebody can explain that behaviour to me... > > Thanks in advance, > > ulrik > Hi Ulrik, has the variable infinity got any special value? Using Infinity instead leads to no Problem in version 5.1: In[1]:= $Version Out[1]= "5.1 for Microsoft Windows (October 25, 2004)" In[2]:= Limit[(-(2^(n - 1)*M)/(n!*L^(n - 1)))^(n/2), n -> Infinity, Assumptions -> M > 0 && L > 0] Out[2]= 0 Peter