Undefined limits by direct substitution | Limits and continuity | AP Calculus AB | Khan Academy

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Sal gives an example of a limit where direct substitution ends in a quotient with 0 in the denominator and non-0 in the numerator. Such limits are undefined. What about limits where substitution ends in 0/0? Keep going and you'll see!

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Thanks Khan for his great effort, but have to point out the logic fallacy here, if the expression is 1/0 after we plug in the number, we can not say the limit doesnot exsit, a counterexample will be 1/x2, whose limit is positive infinity, the correct way of this question is acutally to go back to the definition and plug 0.999 and 1.001 into the expression to see if the left side equals the right side or not.

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hmmmm. is this approach legit since denominator can't be zero, direct substitution make sense ?

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