Re: Please compute this in Mathematica 5

From: David Wilkinson (david_at_wilkinson6337.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:00:12 -0000

"Joerg J. Buchholz" <buchholz@hs-bremen.de> wrote in message
news:cqe0a4$5k6$1@hermes1.rz.hs-bremen.de...
> 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

MathCad gives 5 as the answer.

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