On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Jose Guzman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear colleagues, > > I've just discovered this wonderful thing called Sage (I am a completely > newbie, my apologizes in advance...), and I have to admit that I am > impressed with Sage!!!. I started yesterday, and came along the tutorial > already. I still miss some more documentation...specially related with > worksheet use/configuration (I did not find any other way to combine > LaTeX, html and sage to create nice worksheets like the ones I saw > today. I simply start a cell with %htmlo %latex or %sage). > > Anyway, I was playing around with the limits, and after checking the > short tutorial > (http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/elliottd/calctut/limits.html) I > wanted to try something by myself. I found the following inconvenience. > > > sage: g=9.81 > sage: t=var('t') > sage: limit(2*g*(t^2-1)/(t-1),t=1) > >>> gives me 39 > > However, if I simplify the equation and calculate the limit... > sage: limit(2*g*(t+1),t=1) > >> gives me the good value 39.276
I think the good value should actually be: In [4]: limit(2*g*(t**2-1)/(t-1), t, 1) Out[4]: 39.24 Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
