Re: 1^Infinity
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- Subject: [mg38227] Re: 1^Infinity
- From: "Steven Shippee" <slshippee at attbi.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:36:09 -0500 (EST)
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Isn't this a bit like trying to divide by zero? Infinity + Infinity = Infinity; however, one can not subtract infinity from infinity or or divide by it. Steven Shippee shippee at jcs.mil "Ersek, Ted R" <ErsekTR at navair.navy.mil> wrote in message news:askfsv$l1n$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Hello, > Consider this: > > In[1]:= > 1^Infinity > > Out[1]= > Indeterminate > > --------- > I agree 1.0^Infinity is Indeterminate because 1.0 might be a bit less > than 1 or a bit greater than 1. > but isn't (1*1*1* ..... *1) simply the integer 1. > > --------- > Thanks, > > Ted Ersek > >