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Re: Re: limit crash

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• Subject: [mg33244] Re: [mg33230] Re: [mg33217] limit crash
• From: "Peter Bertok" <peter at bertok.com>
• Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:08:26 -0500 (EST)
• References: <200203092305.SAA00989@smc.vnet.net>
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    I just tried it with Windows XP and Mathematica 4.1 using the front
end, and it worked fine.


> I checked this with Mathematica 4.1 for MacOS X and discovered
something
> rather curious. If I use the Front End to try to perform this
> computation the kernel quits. However, if I run the kernel without the
> FrontEnd I get:
>
>
> In[1]:= a=Log[Log[x*Exp[x*Exp[x]] + 1]] - Exp[Exp[1/x]]*Log[x]
>
>              1/x                         x
>             E                           E  x
> Out[1]= -(E     Log[x]) + Log[Log[1 + E     x]]
>
> In[2]:= Limit[a,x->Infinity]
>
> Out[2]= Infinity
>
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
> Toyama International University
> JAPAN
> http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/
>
>
>
> On Saturday, March 9, 2002, at 09:19  AM, Richard Fateman wrote:
>
> > a=Log[Log[x*Exp[x*Exp[x]] + 1]] - Exp[Exp[1/x]]*Log[x]
> >
> > Limit[a,x->Infinity]
> >
> > crashes the Math kernel in 4.1
> > at location 0x64008450
> > on Windows 2000.
> >
> > RJF
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

• References:
  • Re: limit crash
    • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz@mimuw.edu.pl>