problem with limits at infinity



>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Fateman <fateman at berkeley.edu> writes:

    Richard> The limit program in Maxima was (is?)? based on part of
    Richard> Paul Wang's PhD dissertation.  An alternative, the tlimit
    Richard> program has a lot to recommend it, when it is
    Richard> applicable.? There is a more recent method described in
    Richard> PhD by D.Gruntz? and (an undocumented amount of this?) 
    Richard> was apparently? implemented by Dan Gildea? circa 2007,
    Richard> but is apparently not a top-level call.? I have not tried

Based on the comments in the code, Gruntz's algorithm is called by
limit. I don't know what criteria are used for that, but you may also
call it directly from maxima via gruntz. gruntz can't evaluate this
limit either.

Ray