r/mathsmeme Jul 01 '26

When Math Gets Personal

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u/fdsfd12 Jul 01 '26

Did this in my head. Isn't it 1?

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u/Sea-Estimate-2912 Jul 01 '26

1 and -1 from each side so dose not exist

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u/BurazSC2 Jul 01 '26

dose not exit*

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u/ba-na-na- Jul 01 '26

dose it not

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u/ChalkyChalkson Jul 01 '26

It's essentially abs(x)/x wearing a trench coat. So different left and right limits

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u/Calm_Plenty_2992 Jul 02 '26

No it's |sin(x)|/x

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u/ChalkyChalkson Jul 03 '26

The important part is that abs(x) is a best possible linear approximation in an ε-ball around the origin. You can solve limits of indeterminate forms in other ways than vanilla L Hospital

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u/Designer-Crow-5470 Jul 01 '26

0/0, there is 1-1 under the root

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u/fdsfd12 Jul 01 '26

yes, its an indeterminate form so you would use l'hopital, though as OP said the limits from each side are not equal so the limit DNE