Maxima (cvs) fails to evaluate some limits arbitrarily
Subject: Maxima (cvs) fails to evaluate some limits arbitrarily
From: Richard Fateman
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:30:46 -0800
Daniel Lemire wrote:
> I fail to understand the following behavior... it seems arbitrary to me...
lhospitallim is set to 5. Yes it is arbitrary, but you can
change it.
RJF
> How does Maxima decide that it won't evaluate a limit?
>
>
> (C1) limit(exp(-1/x)/x^5,x,0,PLUS);
>
> (D1) 0
> (C2) limit(exp(-1/x)/x^6,x,0,PLUS);
>
> - 1/x
> %E
> (D2) limit -------
> x -> 0+ 6
> x
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