On Nov 24, 2007 9:03 PM, David Joyner <wdjoyner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
> A very low-priority question: Out of curiousity,
> a friend asked if Maxima could compute the limit
> limit (gamma ((x+1)/2)/(sqrt(x)*gamma (x/2)),x,inf)
> (I believe that the answer should be 1/sqrt(2)).
> I wasn't able to get Maxima to do it but maybe I'm missing
> something. Does anyone here know any tricks
> that help in this case?
> - David
(%i1) gamma ((x+1)/2)/(sqrt(x)*gamma (x/2))$
(%i2) tlimit(%, x, inf);
(%o2) 1/sqrt(2)
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Andrej