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Are you allowed to do that where you just apply L'H an infinite amount of times?
Solving a limit with L'H's rule
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Are you allowed to do that where you just apply L'H an infinite amount of times?
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Turion said:Homework Statement
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After taking the derivative of the denominator, you should get et, not eα. I suspect that was a typo.
Anyway, your limit is correct. The basic idea is that power functions, such as tα grow large, but exponential functions grow large faster.