Re: Ti-89 weirdness
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Re: Ti-89 weirdness
I understand that, but the calculator answers it. It's not like it
just rejurgitates the question I inputted. Don't you think that the
concept of a factorial growing faster than a power (as n -> oo ) is
fundamental. Could they have overlooked that?
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 02:15:24 -0400, Ray Kremer <raykremer@HOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:
>It's not really lying, it just doesn't know any better. Certain complicated
>equations give the calculator enough problems that it just refuses to do it.
> Don't throw your brain away yet, you still need it. :)
>
>>I was studying for my calculus exam yesterday and I tried to evaluate
>>the following limit with the restriction
>>
>>LIM x^n
>> ------
>>n->oo n !
>>
>>the calculator displays : undef
>>as the result of the limit
>>however the result it really 0
>>which can be proven by taylor series
>>why does the calcuator lie?
>
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