Re: Is this normal for Limit?
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- Subject: [mg82284] Re: Is this normal for Limit?
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:52:57 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <ff1par$8nq$1@smc.vnet.net>
Assuming[k > 0, Limit[Exp[-k t], t -> Infinity]] 0 -- David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ "Michael Mandelberg" <mmandelberg at comcast.net> wrote in message news:ff1par$8nq$1 at smc.vnet.net... >I have what I would think is the following simple limit to evaluate: > > $Pre = Refine[#] &; > $Assumptions = {t \[Element] Reals, k \[Element] Reals, k > 0}; > > In[3]:= Limit[Exp[-k t], t -> Infinity] > > The results is: > > Out[3]= Limit[\[ExponentialE]^(-k t), t -> \[Infinity]] > > In other words Mathematica 6.0.0 punts on this. Is there any sense in > which this limit is not well-defined? > > Michael Mandelberg > >