On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 05:07:09PM -0700, wrote:
> Also, I've got a bug which I'm about to post to the sourceforge site:
>
> limit(sin(x)/x,x,0) gives UND on my maxima 5.9.1 from debian
> testing. Apparently in some previous version it didn't (I saw an
> example on the web). I haven't thought about the imaginary case, it's
> been a while, so I don't know whether this limit is defined for the
> imaginary sin(x), is that what's going on?
>
> limit(sin(x)/x,x,0,PLUS) gives 1
> limit(sin(x)/x,x,0,MINUS) gives 1.0, a floating point number ???
Weird, when restarted, maxima gave the right answer for all
cases. Perhaps I had redefined x somewhere? In any case, I'm not
posting the bug to sourceforge now.
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Daniel Lakeland
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