RE: Limits: Is there something I'm missing Here?
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- Subject: [mg39345] RE: [mg39333] Limits: Is there something I'm missing Here?
- From: "Florian Jaccard" <jaccardf at eicn.ch>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:52:01 -0500 (EST)
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Hello !
It is true... If you don't specify direction, the direction is automatically
chosen as -1(I think), so you can't trust "Limit" without checking the two
directions.
So in your example, the limit effectively does not exist !
Here a limit function if direction is not specified that is not bad for
typically school-type examples :
In[14]:=
limReal[y_, x_ -> a_] :=
If[Limit[y, x -> a, Direction -> 1] ==
Limit[y, x -> a, Direction -> -1] &&
Im[y /. x -> a + 10^(-6)] == 0 &&
Im[y /. x -> a - 10^(-6)] == 0, Limit[y, x -> a],
"doesn't exist !"]
a[x_]:=1/x
In[15]:=
limReal[a[x], x -> 0]
Out[15]=
"doesn't exist !"
Meilleures salutations
Florian Jaccard
professeur de Mathématiques
EICN-HES
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Ashraf El Ansary [mailto:Elansary at btopenworld.com]
Envoyé : mar., 11. février 2003 10:47
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Objet : [mg39333] Limits: Is there something I'm missing Here?
Dear all,
One thing I've noticed that if we have a function which has two different
limits (given two different directions) at one points , mathematica would be
still give an answer though to my understanding the limit doesn't exist in
such a case.
Consider the following example:
a[x_]:=1/x
Limit[a[x],x->0,Direction->+1] +Inf
Limit[a[x],x->0,Direction->+1] -Inf
Limit[a[x],x->0]. +Inf.... Maybe my calculus knowledge is a bit
rusty but does the limit exist in this case??
Thank you