Operations on inf
- Subject: Operations on inf
- From: Bowo Prasetyo
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:54:56 +0900
On 10/03/07, Bowo Prasetyo <prazjp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And here is when doing above with Mathematica
>
> Infinity + Infinity
> Infinity
> Infinity - Infinity
> Indeterminate
> Infinity * Infinity
> Infinity
> Infinity ^ Infinity
> ComplexInfinity (different to Maple)
> Infinity / Infinity
> Indeterminate
> 0 * Infinity
> Indeterminate
> 0 ^ 0
> Indeterminate (different to Maple)
> 1 ^ Infinity
> Indeterminate (different to Maple)
> 1.0 ^ Infinity
> Indeterminate (different to Maple)
> 1 / Infinity
> 0
> 0.2 ^ Infinity
> 0
>
One more case from Mathematica..
0 ^ Infinity
0
Therefore in Mathematica (1 + 1/inf) ^ inf will evaluate to
(1 + 1/inf) ^ inf
= (1 + 0) ^ inf
= 1 ^ inf
= Indeterminate
Best regards,
bowo