Message-ID: <4A1C5D17.5040705@witthoft.com>
Date: 2009-05-26T21:20:23Z
From: Carl Witthoft
Subject: Help me...!!!
<quote>From: Doran, Harold <HDoran_at_air.org>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:26:53 -0400
The bad news, as others have indicated, is that this list is not for
homework. The good news is that all of this is extremely easy in R!!!
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces_at_r-project.org] On Behalf Of abel1682
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:37 AM
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> Subject: [R] Help me...!!!
>
>
> Hi to all...i'm a new R'user and i have to solve some
> exercies so i ask to tou for an help...
>
> 1.) How i can demonstrate in R that the limit for
> x-->infinite of (1+1/x)^x is equal to "e"?
</quote>
Well, that's stretching the definition of "demonstrate" (to claim you
can show this equality in R).
IMHO you cannot show the value of an infinite sum in R, since that
depends on theorems in calculus. You can show it's "close" but if I
were the professor I'd not be happy with such a response.
Students -- or the rest of us in GenPop -- who miss the difference there
are just asking for disaster to strike.
Carl