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Examples and further techniques

Through the examples in this page we show some of the most common techniques used in the calculation of limits.

  1. img . Use this technique when searching the limit of a rational function with x→±∞.

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  3. img. Change the variable from x to t=1/x. As x tends to zero, t tends to infinity. Thus  img.

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  5. img. Change the variable from x to ex-1=t. As x tends to zero, t tends also to zero. The limit transforms in the reciprocal of limit 4: img.

  6. img. This technique often works in the case of a rational function in the form 0/0.

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  9. img. Here we have implicitly used a substitution x2=t. As x tends to zero, also t tends to zero. We can treat many other cases in the same way: usually the substitution will not be written explicitly. See the following example.

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first published on march 26 2002 - last updated on september 01 2003