x → 0 lim ( x 1 ) x
Find the limit above if it exists.
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Perfect +1 :-)
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Thank you =D
@akash patalwanshi , sorry, but I have been editing the wording of your problem. I was given the right to do so to standardize the problems. No need to change it back. My English is okay.
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Sir no need to say sorry. The problem now look more standard.
Note that the limit on the left doesn't exist, since ln x 1 is not defined for x < 0 .
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I maybe wrong but isn't it that at the end points of the domain we have to check only one sided limits, Note that we can't approach 0 from left as the base of exponential function becomes negative while in standard practice we always take base as positive. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Since the limit from the left is not defined, the limit is not defined.
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@展豪 張 – Well appreciate the fact that in standard practice exponential functions are always defined for positive bases.Also a function is always studied within it's domain of defination, Zero being an end point of the domain,You cannot approach it from left anyway and hence existence of one sided limit is the sufficient and necessary condition for overall limit to exist. Go check on wolfram alpha,limit exists and is equal to 1. If I'm wrong please give me a verified source contradicting my point
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@Ayush Agarwal – Yes you are wrong. IF it was written as f ( x ) = x x 1 and we restrict the domain of the function to where it makes sense, then we can talk about lim x → 0 f ( x ) and restrict the x values to where it makes sense, and then take any sequence of the restricted domain.
However, for lim x → 0 x x 1 , we have to take any sequence approaching 0 and calculate the limit of those points.
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@Calvin Lin – Oh! Got it. Will take care about such things from now. Thanks a lot. Cheers.
That's absolutely embarrassing...Shall I delete the solution?
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Nope, just edit the solution accordingly. Thanks!
L = x → 0 lim ( x 1 ) x = x → 0 lim e x ln x = x → 0 lim exp ( x ln x ) exp ( x ) is just another way of expressing e x for convenience. = x → 0 lim exp ( x 1 ln x ) Since ln x → − ∞ and x 1 → ∞ as x → 0 , we can use the L’H o ˆ pital’s rule. = x → 0 lim exp ( − x 2 1 x 1 ) Differentiating up and down. = x → 0 lim e − x = e 0 = 1 = 0 !
Sir someone Reported this problem. Please see that.
Note that the limit on the left doesn't exist, since ln x is not defined for x < 0 .
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Let the limit be A .
Then ln A = x → 0 lim x ln ( x 1 ) (from continuity of logarithm)
The right side limit = x → 0 + lim x 1 ln ( x 1 ) = L H x → 0 + lim − x 2 1 − x 1 = 0
However, the left side limit does not exist, as ln x 1 is not defined for x < 0
So the limit does not exist.