l'Hôpital's rule

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l’Hôpital's rule

  1. Alternative letter-case form of L'Hôpital's rule
    • 1985, Frederick H. Soon, “Limits, L'Hôpital's Rule, and Numerical Methods”, in Student’s Guide to Calculus by J. Marsden and A. Weinstein, volume II, Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, section 2 (L'Hôpital's Rule), page 484:
      Many times, the limit of an exponential form can be determined by applying l'Hôpital's rule to the logarithm of the desired function.
    • 2005, Robert G. Mortimer, “Mathematical Functions and Differential Calculus”, in Mathematics for Physical Chemistry, 3rd edition, Elsevier, section “Limiting Values of Functions: L’Hôpital’s Rule”, page 114:
      There are a number of applications of limits in physical chemistry, and l’Hôpital’s rule is useful in some of them.
    • 2016, Daniel J. Velleman, “Applications of Differentiation”, in Calculus: A Rigorous First Course, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., →ISBN, section 8 (L’Hôpital’s Rule), page 262:
      We will discuss the proof of l’Hôpital’s rule later in this section.