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10:15 <floundering> rtoym_: Thanks, I have the gnuplot postscript output required now. 
10:20 <floundering> One plot ends prematurely, (((n+1)^(n+1))/n^n)-(n^n/(n-1)^(n-1)),[n,1.001,350],[y,0,3] at n=140 xrange is set to 350, Anybody have any Ideas?
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12:50 <floundering> my suspicion is that storage space runs out for numbers when n gets bigger, would 350^350 be a difficult number for maxima to handle without special tuning?
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13:31 <rtoym> floundering: Overflow probably?  140^140 is pretty close to the largest double-float.
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13:44 <floundering> rtoym: Thanks, perhaps the school included this to demonstrate a point, perhaps?
13:45 <rtoym> Could be.  Hard to say.
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21:47 <thorat> is there a maxima bot?
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23:29 <dn4> hello
23:32 <dn4> when I do
23:32 <dn4> diff (sqrt(1*x))
23:32 <dn4> I get
23:32 <dn4> del(x)/(2*sqrt(x))
23:32 <dn4> what does the del part mean?
23:35 <dn4> when I do diff (sqrt(1*x)) in maxima I get  del(x)/(2*sqrt(x)); What does the del mean?
23:38 <HaraldG> del(x) is the differential of variable x, because you didn't provide which variable you want diff to work on.
23:38 <HaraldG> Try diff(sqrt(x), x); to get the result you want.
23:43 <dn4> ohhhhh
23:44 <dn4> hmm
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