Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
>On 5/2/05, Doug Stewart wrote:
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>>In my attempt to learn Maxima I tried the following:
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>>(%i26) limit(sum(1/k,k,1,n),n,inf);
>> n
>> ====
>> \ 1
>>(%o26) limit > -
>> n -> INF / k
>> ====
>> k = 1
>>
>>
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>Does the limit exist? I dont think the above sum converges as n tends
>to infinity. But I could be wrong.
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>raju
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Good point -- I was thinking about the Maxima syntax not about the math :-)
But if it does not converge does this not mean that the limit is inf?
Doug Stewart