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- From: tycchow@riesz.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
- Subject: Re: An interesting limit problem.
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:19:49 GMT
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- In article <Bs1xzu.DFp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> das50852@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (dan) writes:
- <mattm@lure.latrobe.edu.au writes:
- <
- <> sin(tan x) - tan(sin x)
- <> lim ---------------------------------- = ???
- <> x->0 arcsin(arctan x) - arctan(arcsin x)
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- By the way, how does Arnold solve this problem?
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- Tim Chow tycchow@math.mit.edu
- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
- 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
- only 1 1/2 tons. ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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