Exercise 764Calculus › Single-variable calculus › Differentiation › Differentiable functionsL1Added 2 Nov 2026
L'Hôpital's rule, twice
#L'Hôpital's rule#indeterminate forms
Statement
Compute
Hint
This is a form: apply L'Hôpital's rule, and apply it again if needed. You can check the answer with Taylor expansions.
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Solution
First application. The numerator and denominator vanish at and are differentiable:
This is again a form.
Second application.
Conclusion. The limit is , since each application preserves the limit once the new limit exists.
Check by Taylor. and , so the quotient tends to .