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Oct 23, 2015, 1:51:21 AM10/23/15
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Hello,

I'm curious to know as to how we are treating oo here on the sympy project.
as sometimes some ans shows that oo*I is possible, how are we really defining oo here.

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Speed

Aaron Meurer

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Oct 23, 2015, 12:38:01 PM10/23/15
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oo*I is the directional infinity along the positive imaginary axis. If
you want, you can think of oo as the limit of the sequence {1, 2, 3,
...} and oo*I is the limit of the sequence {1*I, 2*I, 3*I, ...}. SymPy
also has zoo, or complex infinity (the north pole in the Riemann
sphere). This intuitively represents infinity in every complex
direction.

oo, and expressions containing it, are strictly speaking only
formalisms. Operations on oo aren't always well-defined, and if you
try hard enough, you can manipulate expressions containing it to
obtain nonsense or even wrong results (instead of putting oo in an
expression and computing with it, you should use limit()).

Aaron Meurer
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Speed

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Oct 23, 2015, 4:06:47 PM10/23/15
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Thanks Aaron.
That was the thing I wasn't giving a thought.

and while visiting so many functions, trying to understand, trying to take out examples, run test cases, etc.
I really somewhat got the little command over this, but is still not getting things that I can implement for this project to once get start my contribution cycle.

This project really interests me and I want to build myself on that. But not getting anything to match my newbie level to work on.
It would be very helpful if you could guide me through this part.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Speed

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