Re: [Maxima-discuss] Stupid newbie-type question re limits

[Richard F. <fa...@gm...>]

Paul Wang's original limit program was aimed at tasks that came up in
writing his
program for definite integration, circa 1970.  Dominik Gruntz wrote a
thesis on limits, circa 1996.
Implemented in Maxima as gruntz().  And there is tlimit.

My guess is that the problems you find in texts will be solved.  Of course
if you are
trying to find derivatives, and l'hopital's rule is used ...  it is using
derivatives, so the
mechanism may be circular.

RJF


On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 1:37 PM Stavros Macrakis <mac...@gm...> wrote:

> Why don't you try it and let us know how it does?
>
> Also try *tlimit*.
>
>                -s
>
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 4:27 PM Henry Baker <hb...@pi...> wrote:
>
>> How good is Maxima at taking limits?
>>
>> If I give Maxima a set of derivative problems -- e.g.,
>> from an *old* math textbook -- can Maxima derive
>> the answer by computing limit(h,0,(f(a+h)-f(a))/h) ?
>> (I'm not worried about running time efficiency, but
>> simply whether the basic 'limit' capabilities of Maxima
>> are up to this task.)
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative
>>
>> What about L'H&ocirc;pital's rule ?
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27H%C3%B4pital%27s_rule
>>
>> I would imagine that being able to handle most
>> limits that occur in computing derivatives would
>> be one criterion for completeness of a limit
>> package.
>>
>>
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