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L'Hopital's Rule

When calculating the limits of some \frac{0}{0} form, for example,

\lim_{x\to a} \frac{f(x)}{g(x)}

with f(a)=g(a)=0, we can use this rule. The answer should be \frac{f'(x)}{g'(x)}. We can use \frac{df(x)}{dg(x)} at the point a to represent the value,

$$ \frac{df(x)}{dg(x)} = \frac{\frac{df(x)}{dx}}{\frac{dg(x)}{dx}} = \frac{f'(x)}{g'(x)} $$.