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L'Hôpital evaluates as
Example
At ,
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The displayed quotient on a punctured neighbourhood of .
The zero-over-zero theorem is L'Hôpital's rule for the form at finite or infinite, one-sided endpoints.
Power derivatives and limit algebra are For a natural the function is differentiable everywhere with derivative ; for it is the constant , with derivative ; for a natural the function is differentiable at every with derivative ; consequently every polynomial function is differentiable at every real, with the derivative computed term by term, Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when , and Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients of function limits, the quotient under the hypothesis that the denominator limit is nonzero.
Verification
Numerator and denominator tend to , the denominator derivative is nonzero near , and the derivative quotient tends to .
Applying [L1] gives the limit . Direct factorization to away from confirms the removable nature of the quotient at .
Depends on
- L'Hôpital's rule for the $0/0$ form at finite or infinite, one-sided endpoints
- Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: $(f+g)'(c) = f'(c) + g'(c)$, $(\alpha f)'(c) = \alpha f'(c)$, $(fg)'(c) = f'(c)g(c) + f(c)g'(c)$, and $(f/g)'(c) = \bigl(f'(c)g(c) - f(c)g'(c)\bigr)/g(c)^{2}$ when $g(c) \ne 0$
- For a natural $n \ge 1$ the function $x \mapsto x^{n}$ is differentiable everywhere with derivative $\iota(n)\,x^{\,n-1}$; for $n = 0$ it is the constant $1$, with derivative $0$; for a natural $n \ge 1$ the function $x \mapsto x^{-n}$ is differentiable at every $x \ne 0$ with derivative $-\iota(n)\,x^{-n-1}$; consequently every polynomial function is differentiable at every real, with the derivative computed term by term
- Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients of function limits, the quotient under the hypothesis that the denominator limit is nonzero
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Sources
- MIT OpenCourseWare 18.100B Real Analysis, Spring 2025 lecture notes (standard reference, not scraped)