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#4761 infinity as a limit point

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nobody
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2 hours ago
2 hours ago
No

My understanding of the user-documentation is that infinity is not allowed as a limit point. But this error message implies that a limit point can be infinity:

    limit(x,x,[2,inf]);
limit: third argument must be a finite value or one of: inf, minf, infinity; found: [2,inf]
 -- an error. To debug this try: debugmode(true);

But look at

(%i16)  limit(cos(x),x, infinity);
gruntz: direction must be 'plus' or 'minus'; found: false

Here the error message is surprising.

(Yes, of course: My use of limit point is distinct from its topological meaning--by 'limit point', I only mean the third argument to 'limit'.)

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