L'HOPITAL'S RULE


Meaning of L'HOPITAL'S RULE in English

Variant: or L'Hos · pi · tal's rule

Pronunciation: ˌ l ō -p ē - ' tälz-

Function: noun

Etymology: Guillaume de l'Hôpital † 1704 French mathematician

Date: 1944

: a theorem in calculus: if at a given point two functions have an infinite limit or zero as a limit and are both differentiable in a neighborhood of this point then the limit of the quotient of the functions is equal to the limit of the quotient of their derivatives provided that this limit exists

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