On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:
> as someone reported yesterday in the Spanish Maxima list, the following
> limit is not working:
> ?limit( (log(1+x^2)-2+2*cos(x))/((sin(x))^2+2*sqrt(1-x^2)-2),x,0);
>
> In version 5.19.0 it used to give the wrong result "minf". Now in
> version 5.20.0 Maxima gets stuck and does not return anything.
> It is easy to see that the correct result is 5/7.
Hmm. I just tried it again w/ 5.20.1, same behavior as 5.20.0.
(I guess some other limit bug was fixed.)
Can you please submit a bug report about it, if there is not one already.
best,
Robert Dodier