The L'Hôpital Temptation

The L'Hôpital Temptation
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The eternal struggle of calculus students everywhere. First panel: SpongeBob stares nervously at a limit where exponential growth completely dominates those puny trigonometric functions. Second panel: "MUST NOT USE L'HÔPITAL" - the desperate mantra of students trying to solve limits without derivatives.

Third panel: "I DON'T NEED IT" - the self-deception phase where you convince yourself there must be another way. Fourth panel: "I NEED IT!" - the inevitable surrender when you realize that, yes, you absolutely need l'Hôpital's rule for that second limit.

Just like dehydrated SpongeBob eventually caved for water, mathematicians cave for elegant differentiation shortcuts. Nobody has time to mess with algebraic gymnastics when there's a perfectly good theorem sitting right there.

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