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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!news!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!star.enet.dec.com!abbasi
  2. From: abbasi@star.enet.dec.com (My name is...)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: MAPLE: Limit of (1/x^n)*e^x as x->oo
  5. Message-ID: <1992Jul29.151129.23634@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
  6. Date: 29 Jul 92 15:08:51 GMT
  7. Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
  8. Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
  9. Lines: 15
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  12. Why do you think this MAPLE stopped giving the limit at 7? :
  13. I dont get it?
  14.  
  15. > limit((1/x^6)*exp(x),x=infinity);
  16.                                     infinity
  17.  
  18. > limit((1/x^7)*exp(x),x=infinity);
  19.                                             exp(x)
  20.                               limit         ------
  21.                               x -> infinity    7
  22.                                               x
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  24.  
  25. /Nasser
  26.