Re: l'Hopital's Rule
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- Subject: [mg24418] Re: l'Hopital's Rule
- From: "John L. Jechura Jr." <JLJechura at MarathonOil.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:58:15 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Marathon Oil Company
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There are actually two answers depending upon the restrictions on a. If a>0 (as you have assumed), then the limit is zero. However, if a<0, then a-Sqrt[a^2] is not zero but rather 2a; in this case, the limit would be zero. John Jechura Sr. Engineer Marathon Oil Company <heathw at in-tch.com> wrote in message news:8k3oi3$42k at smc.vnet.net... > Hi, > When I input this: > Limit[(a^2 - a*x)/(a - Sqrt[a*x]), x -> a] > The output is: > 0 > The output should be 2*a. > Can't Mathematica 4 use l'Hopital's Rule? > Thanks, > Heath > >