Indeterminate forms are mathematical expressions where it is not possible to determine their exact value without further analysis or techniques such as L'Hôpital's rule.
Imagine you have a math problem that asks you to find the value of 0 divided by 0. It seems impossible, right? That's because it falls under an indeterminate form, where the answer cannot be determined without additional information or methods.
Limit: The value that a function approaches as its input approaches a certain point.
L'Hôpital's Rule: A technique used to evaluate limits of indeterminate forms by taking derivatives of the numerator and denominator separately.
Infinity (∞): A concept representing an unbounded quantity that is greater than any real number. It often appears in indeterminate forms when evaluating limits.
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