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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.

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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.
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