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Re:999999999999999 - 999999999999997 by calcnerd256 on Monday August 24, 2009 @07:20PM (#783650)
What about limit as x goes to infinity of x - (x - 1)? We do the algebra first, right? Now, that's a special case of y - (x - 1) where y = x, so can we get a different residue by going about the limit in two dimensions?
Re:999999999999999 - 999999999999997 by modeless on Monday August 24, 2009 @07:53PM (#783716)
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=limit+of+x+-+(x+-+1)+as...

Also, http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=infinity+-+(infinity+-+...

If nothing else, Wolfram Alpha is useful for math. I'm impressed that it understood my syntax for limits that I made up on the spot, first try.

Re:999999999999999 - 999999999999997 by calcnerd256 on Thursday August 27, 2009 @11:29PM (#790685)
When I asked it to show its work, it demonstrated that it did the algebra first. I was asking if that's legal here.