L'Hospital's rule is a method for evaluating limits that are indeterminate forms like ∞/∞ or 0/0. It states that if the limit of f(x) and g(x) both approach 0, ±∞ as x approaches a, then the limit of f(x)/g(x) as x approaches a is equal to the limit of the derivative of f(x) over the derivative of g(x), provided this derivative limit exists. The document explains that with the natural logarithm, L'Hospital's rule can now be applied to more types of indeterminate forms like 1/∞, 0/0, and ∞/0.
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powerful tool for computing limits of indeterminate form ∞/∞ or 0/0
L'Hospital's rule is a method for evaluating limits that are indeterminate forms like ∞/∞ or 0/0. It states that if the limit of f(x) and g(x) both approach 0, ±∞ as x approaches a, then the limit of f(x)/g(x) as x approaches a is equal to the limit of the derivative of f(x) over the derivative of g(x), provided this derivative limit exists. The document explains that with the natural logarithm, L'Hospital's rule can now be applied to more types of indeterminate forms like 1/∞, 0/0, and ∞/0.
L'Hospital's rule is a method for evaluating limits that are indeterminate forms like ∞/∞ or 0/0. It states that if the limit of f(x) and g(x) both approach 0, ±∞ as x approaches a, then the limit of f(x)/g(x) as x approaches a is equal to the limit of the derivative of f(x) over the derivative of g(x), provided this derivative limit exists. The document explains that with the natural logarithm, L'Hospital's rule can now be applied to more types of indeterminate forms like 1/∞, 0/0, and ∞/0.
'Hpital's rule is a powerful tool for computing limits of indeterminate
form / or 0/0 We recall the statement of L'Hospital's rule below,
L'Hospital's rule. Suppose f and g are functions differentiable at x = a, and limxa f(x)/g(x) is of indeterminate form, i.e. limxa f(x) = limxa g(x) = 0, or limxa f(x) = and limxa g(x) = . Then limxaf(x)/g(x) = limxaf(x)/g(x) (provided the limit on the right-hand side exists). Now that we have the natural logarithm at our disposal, we can apply L'Hospital's rule to an even larger class of limits- specially, those limits of indeterminate form1, 00, and 0
'Hospital's Rule to evaluate an intermediate form of type 0 0