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#326 2012-02-16 09:36:13
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Re: Limits!
Correct! Wanted to see if you were sure.
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#327 2012-02-16 09:36:49
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Re: Limits!
you sneaky little... 
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#328 2012-02-16 09:43:53
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Re: Limits!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#329 2012-02-16 10:00:18
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Re: Limits!
hi bobbym
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#330 2012-02-16 10:03:22
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Re: Limits!
Correct!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#331 2012-02-16 10:06:09
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Re: Limits!
hi bobbym
why are you giving these easy ones?
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#332 2012-02-16 10:10:59
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Re: Limits!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#333 2012-02-16 10:17:09
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hi bobbym
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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#334 2012-02-16 10:17:48
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Not true.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
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#335 2012-02-16 10:35:24
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Re: Limits!
no?but wolfram said that they don't converge.
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#336 2012-02-16 10:36:49
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Re: Limits!
What did you enter?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#337 2012-02-16 10:45:12
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Re: Limits!
is the ans 0?
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#338 2012-02-16 10:46:54
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Yes, and there is a very good argument for that.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#339 2012-02-16 10:50:49
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and that is?
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#340 2012-02-16 10:57:27
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Do you agree that we can write the above limit in this more convenient form:
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#341 2012-02-16 11:03:51
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Re: Limits!
yes...
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#342 2012-02-16 11:07:53
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Have you heard of Stirling's formula or approximation?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#343 2012-02-16 11:14:42
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no,but i know that e^n is O(n^(n+1/2))
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#344 2012-02-16 11:19:16
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Re: Limits!
Okay, Stirling's formula was discovered by James Stirling and is a very good approximation for factorials. It is used quite often in many fields of mathematiocs.
1)First convince yourself that
f(100) is a good approximation of 100!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#345 2012-02-16 11:33:21
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Re: Limits!
ok
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#346 2012-02-16 11:41:34
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Now it is important to understand that
but more importantly
This means that Stirling's formula becomes a better and better approximation of n! the larger n gets.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#347 2012-02-16 11:43:57
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Re: Limits!
ok.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#348 2012-02-16 11:46:45
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Re: Limits!
Remember the result in #340?
and Stirlings formula?
Does not the RHS of 1) look like the LHS of 2 inverted?
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#349 2012-02-16 11:49:24
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Re: Limits!
it does.so our limit is:
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#350 2012-02-16 11:52:32
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Re: Limits!
That is close:
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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