Re: Is this normal for Limit?
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- Subject: [mg82291] Re: Is this normal for Limit?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:56:33 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <ff1par$8nq$1@smc.vnet.net>
Hi,
Assuming[{Element[k, Reals] && k > 0},
Limit[\[ExponentialE]^(-k t), t -> \[Infinity]]
]
??
Regards
Jens
Michael Mandelberg wrote:
> I have what I would think is the following simple limit to evaluate:
>
> $Pre = Refine[#] &;
> $Assumptions = {t \[Element] Reals, k \[Element] Reals, k > 0};
>
> In[3]:= Limit[Exp[-k t], t -> Infinity]
>
> The results is:
>
> Out[3]= Limit[\[ExponentialE]^(-k t), t -> \[Infinity]]
>
> In other words Mathematica 6.0.0 punts on this. Is there any sense in
> which this limit is not well-defined?
>
> Michael Mandelberg
>
>