Re:"Limit involving square root"
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- Subject: [mg30235] Re:"Limit involving square root"
- From: seidovzf at yahoo.com (Zakir F. Seidov)
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:56:04 -0400 (EDT)
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In my case also
Series is OK, but Limit is NOT:
In[1]:=$Version
Out[1]="4.0 for Microsoft Windows (December 5, 1999)"
In[2]:=Limit[x - Sqrt[9 - 10 x + x^2], x -> Infinity]
Out[2]=5
In[3]:=Limit[a + x - Sqrt[9 - 10 x + x^2], x -> Infinity]
Out[3]=a
In[4]:=
Normal[Series[a + x - Sqrt[9 - 10 x + x^2], {x , Infinity, 4}] ]
Out[4]=
5 + a + 232/x^3 + 40/x^2 + 8/x
What a suprise for us users?!
Zakir
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Subject: [mg30235] Limit involving square root
Author: Hugh Goyder <goyder at rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk>
Organization: Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and
MathTensor, Inc.
Dear Mathgroup,
Below I take the limit of a function and then the limit of 1 plus the
same
function. A plot of the function shows that the first result, (5), is
correct but the second, (1), is wrong. (Should be 6.) What's
happening?
In[1]:=$Version
Out[1]=
4.1 for Microsoft Windows (November 2, 2000)
In[2]:=
Limit[x - Sqrt[9 - 10 x + x^2],x -> Infinity]
Out[2]=5
In[3]:=
Limit[1 + x - Sqrt[9 - 10 x + x^2],x -> Infinity]
Out[3]=1
I also note that using Series to expand about infinity does give the
correct answers.
Thanks
Hugh Goyder