Limit bug?



On 2/20/07, Mike Williams <mike at doublediamondsw.com> wrote:
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> (%i1) limit(x/(x-1)-1/log(x),x,1,plus);


  => 'limit(x-1/log(1/x+1)+1,x,inf)

Sorry about this limitation in Maxima.  It really should be able to get this
right, and we'll try to fix it in future versions.  In the meantime, there
are a couple of workarounds:

     tlimit(x/(x-1)-1/log(x),x,1,plus) => 1/2
          (uses taylor package to analyze)
     limit(ratsimp(x/(x-1)-1/log(x)),x,1,plus) => 1/2
          (pre-simplifying the argument)

Hope these help for other cases.

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Thanks,

             -s