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Re: Limits of Nested Expressions

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• Subject: [mg80839] Re: Limits of Nested Expressions
• From: Yaroslav Bulatov <yaroslavvb at gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 03:38:39 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sep 3, 3:17 am, dimitris <dimmec... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 2     , 10:05, dimitris <dimmec... at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On 30    , 09:32, Yaroslav Bulatov <yarosla... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Is it possible to compute the following limit in Mathematica 6?
> > > Limit[Nest[Sqrt[5 + #]&, 5, n], n -> Infinity]
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> > > It used to be possible through Calculus`Limit package, which seems to
> > > be gone
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> > Hi.
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> > I think the others covered your query.
> > Just a side remark, I suggest you to read
> > the following thread, based on a old but similar
> > question of mine.
>
> > Regards
> > Dimitris
>
> Ooops!
> I forgot the link...
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> Voila:
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> http://groups.google.gr/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/browse_t...
>
> Cheers
> Dimitris

Thanks for the replies. I got the impression from Michael Trott's
Guidebook that Calculus`Limit contained useful functionality, but now
I can see that it is not so.