correction: I meant "1/9", not "1".
--- On Wed, 8/25/10, Ether Jones <maxima at etherjones.us> wrote:
> From: Ether Jones <maxima at etherjones.us>
> Subject: limit evaluation
> To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 2:35 PM
> New Maxima user here.? I'm going to
> swallow my pride and ask this. Sorry if this is obvious, but
> I've spent about an hour trying different things and looking
> at examples and reading the docs and I can't figure out how
> to get Maxima to tell me that the answer to the limit is "1"
> (and hopefully to show me how it got that answer):
>
> (%i3) limit(sum(1/10^k,k,1, n),n,inf,minus);
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
> ???n
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
> ====
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
> \? ? ? 1
> (%o3)? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???limit? ? ?
> >? ? ---
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? n -> inf-
> /? ? ???k
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
> ====? 10
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
> k = 1
> (%i4)
>
>
> Is there a doc somewhere that just contains a gazillion
> working examples of Maxima's various capabilities??
>
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