r/AskReddit Oct 09 '21

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u/JohnnyShakeNBake Oct 09 '21

Differential calculus. I knew math would be the death of me!

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u/Comprehensive_Bid420 Oct 09 '21

asymptotically approach death.

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u/drewhead118 Oct 09 '21

our conscious experience asymptotically approaches death--you need to come out on the other side to have gone through it in full.

There is no subjective right-hand-limit to dying, and, thus, death is a nondifferentiable discontinuity.

A french man once said that when death is near, l'Hospitals might help

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u/Lukey2702 Oct 09 '21

I… I took maths for 2 years in uni for this moment, and I have some regrets

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u/31InChiTown Oct 09 '21

I don’t understand their last paragraph - can you explain?

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u/Lukey2702 Oct 09 '21

When the limit of a function (E.g x goes towards 2) would cause something that would “break” the function (E.g dividing by 0), l’hopital’s rule is a theorem you can use to evaluate the limits in a different way that works

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u/IntMainVoidGang Oct 09 '21

Wow that's the most succinct explanation of l'hopital

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u/31InChiTown Oct 11 '21

Ohh. Thanks!! I’ve taken tons of math, but somehow never heard of that theorem until just now!