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Re: Not sure this limit is right...

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  • From: Bernard Sarman <bernardsarman at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 02:32:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Yes, that's what I meant.

I have another, related question: 9^-9^9 seems to explode on my machine.
The memory jumps to over 1 GB, and I have to abort the evaluation. I have
no idea why Mathematica would require so much memory to evaluate this
expression.

Thanks!

Frank


> This does not make sense to me.  You need to put some of the x's in
> parenthesis or something.
>
> Exp[-x^x^x^x^x]
>
> in Mathematica is
>
>          x
>        x
>      x
>   -x
> e
>
> is this what you mean?
>
>
>
> On 06/04/13 20:51, bernardsarman at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing the following result:
>>
>> Limit[x^-x^x^-x^x/Exp[-x^x^x^**x^x], x ->  \[Infinity]] = infinity
>>
>> I would have expected 0?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>


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