@siriusmartM to Daily Maths Challenges • 7 months ago[2024/05/04] Prove L'Hopital's ruleimagemessage-square5arrow-up129arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squarezkfcfbzrlinkEnglish5•edit-27 months ago Here's a very shitty wishy-washy proof that takes a few liberties with what you can do with limits: f’(x) = lim x → h of (f(x+h) - f(x)) / h and g’(x) = lim h → 0 of (g(x+h) - g(x)) / h. So f’(x)/g’(x) = (lim h → 0 of (f(x+h) - f(x)) / h) / (lim h → 0 of (g(x+h) - g(x)) / h) = lim h → 0 of (f(x+h) - f(x)) / (g(x+h) - g(x)) So lim x → a of f’(x)/g’(x) = lim x → a lim h → 0 of (f(x+h) - f(x)) / (g(x+h) - g(x)) Plug in x = a and the - f(x) and - g(x) terms disappear, since we’re given f(a) = g(a) = 0. Then un-plug-in x = a to keep the rest of the limit. lim x → a of f’(x) / g’(x) = lim x → a lim h → 0 of f(x+h) / g(x+h) Plug in h = 0 limit lim x → a of f’(x) / g’(x) = lim x → a of f(x) / g(x), QED ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
minus-square@siriusmartOPMlink4•7 months agothats the wrong way round, but yeah its the standard way of proving it
Here's a very shitty wishy-washy proof that takes a few liberties with what you can do with limits:
f’(x) = lim x → h of (f(x+h) - f(x)) / h and g’(x) = lim h → 0 of (g(x+h) - g(x)) / h.
So f’(x)/g’(x) = (lim h → 0 of (f(x+h) - f(x)) / h) / (lim h → 0 of (g(x+h) - g(x)) / h)
= lim h → 0 of (f(x+h) - f(x)) / (g(x+h) - g(x))
So lim x → a of f’(x)/g’(x) = lim x → a lim h → 0 of (f(x+h) - f(x)) / (g(x+h) - g(x))
Plug in x = a and the - f(x) and - g(x) terms disappear, since we’re given f(a) = g(a) = 0. Then un-plug-in x = a to keep the rest of the limit.
lim x → a of f’(x) / g’(x) = lim x → a lim h → 0 of f(x+h) / g(x+h)
Plug in h = 0 limit
lim x → a of f’(x) / g’(x) = lim x → a of f(x) / g(x), QED ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
thats the wrong way round, but yeah its the standard way of proving it