# Limits

## L’Hôpital’s Rule: One More Example

(A new question of the week) Having just looked at L’Hôpital’s Rule, we can conclude with a look at a recent question about it, to illustrate the reality of struggling to apply it (and the process we go through to help a student find an error). Subhajit wrote this a couple months ago: I am …

## L’Hôpital’s Rule: Harder Cases

Last time we looked at the basics of L’Hôpital’s Rule, which applies to limits of the form or , and ways to understand or prove it. Here, we’ll consider a variety of questions we’ve received about less direct application of the rule. We’ll see ways to apply it to other indeterminate forms (, , ), and what …

## L’Hôpital’s Rule: What and Why

The next few posts will look at a powerful technique for finding limits in calculus, called L’Hôpital’s Rule. Here, we’ll introduce what it is, and why it works. In the next post we’ll examine some harder cases. Indeterminate forms The method we will be discussing is used to find limits that have an indeterminate form. …

## Epsilons, Deltas, and Limits — Oh, My!

Using the epsilon-delta definition of a limit in calculus can be challenging. (That’s why, after using it for a few examples, we derive some easier techniques, and never use the definition directly unless we have to!) We’ll start with an overview of what the definition means, and then look at several examples of how it …