Re: Please compute this in Mathematica 5

From: Peter Pein (petsie_at_arcor.de)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:13:21 +0100

Joerg J. Buchholz wrote:
> Julian,
>
> are you trying to start a nice little flame war on: "Why do you need CAS
> (and paper) at all? You can do it all in your head."? :-)
>
> No, seriously - I tried it in MuPAD (light 2.5.3):
>
> limit((3^x+5^x)^(1/x),x=infinity)
>
> 3
>
> which made me a little bit insecure. I was wondering whether there could be
> cases...
>
> Joerg
>
> <snip>
>
>>Why do you need MMa? You can do it in your head.
>>
>>--
>>Julian V. Noble
>
>
> <snip>
>
>
MuPAD 3.1 gives the correct answer: 5
Mathematica 4 returns unevaluated: Limit[(3^x+5^x)^(1/x),x->Infinity] 

-- 
Peter Pein
Berlin

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