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One to the power Infinity

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  • Subject: [mg35911] One to the power Infinity
  • From: Matthias.Bode at oppenheim.de
  • Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 06:06:02 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Dear Colleagues,

when fooling around with MATHEMATICA I found:

0^\[Infinity] => 0, as expected;
0.9^\[Infinity] => 0, as expected;
2^\[Infinity] => Infinity, as expected;
1^\[Infinity] => Indeterminate, unexpected. Naively expected: 1.

For which reason(s) is 1^\[Infinity] defined as Indeterminate?

Best regards,

Matthias Bode.


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