starange "limit" behaviour



Raymond Toy wrote:

>>>>>>"Richard" == Richard Fateman <fateman@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:
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>    Richard> Probably the program is described in Paul Wang's
>    Richard> MIT PhD thesis.  sheur0 is probably "s" heuristic "0".
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>For the record, his thesis is available at
>http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/specpub.php?id=660.  It's a scan
>of the thesis, and it's missing a few important pages describing his
>limit program. :-(
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>    Richard> This problem is solved by the commercial Macsyma
>    Richard> correctly.
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>Does it also handle limit(4^n/2^(2*n),n,inf) correctly?  I assume it
>does. 
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It gives 1.

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>Ray
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