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Hi! I want to define a function to do limit comparison test. I want the function that can be given one or three arguments. First argument should be the formula for n-th element of sequence I want to put to the test - a. Second, optional, argument should be the formula for n-th element of sequence I want to compare with - b. Third argument should be the letters 'k' or 'd' wether the given sequence b is convergent or divergent.

I have problem to define a function with optional number of arguments. I don't know how to make the program differentiate the number of arguments. I used the nargs command but it does not work.

var('n,b,L')
def limzk(a, *args):  
if nargs==0:
    b=1/n^2
    L=lim(a/b, n=Infinity)
    if L<Infinity:
        print('convergent')
    else:
        b=1/n
        L=lim(a/b, n=Infinity)
        if L>0:
            print('divergent')
        else:
            print('cannot be decided by this test')
elif nargs==2:
    if args[1]==('k'):
        b=args[0]
        L=lim(a/b, n=Infinity)
        if L<Infinity:
            print('convergent')
        else:
            print('cannot be decided by this test')
    elif args[1]==('d'):
        b=args[0]
        L=lim(a/b, n=Infinity)
        if L>0:
            print('divergent')
        else:
            print('cannot be decided by this test')
else:
    print('ERROR: wrong number of parameters given')

Thank you for help.