Re: Ti-89 weirdness


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Re: Ti-89 weirdness



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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