Posted by: timetraveller June 28, 2006
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loote's got the answer ok....so can someone prove l'hôpital's rule? An interesting fact about l'hôpital: His name was "The Marquis de l'hôpital". The "^" wasn't in use in France untill after the French revolution. Thus before that, Mr "The Marquis" would have written his name as: l'Hospital. Since he wrote the first book on calculus ever, even though Newton and Leibniz discovered it separately, imagine the amazement on American's and Englishmen's faces when they mustve first seen his name on the calculus text. well, a majority of you may not find it funny.
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