#Limits question - not sure how to do formally

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lost rain
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0

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answer is 0

torpid rune
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Do you just sub in?

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is that enough of an answer

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i know its 0

lost rain
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oh you knew my bad

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i should learn to read

torpid rune
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no worries

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I thought because its approaching from right you have to do something different maybe?

lost rain
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well no its just intuition

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we know that approaching ln from the right towards x = 1 is 0

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and also that 0 raised to any power is still 0

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now i dont know how one would write that as an answer to a mathematical question

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but that's the reasoning

torpid rune
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ok thanks

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do you know of any way to formally write the limit for ln(1) from 1+ as 0

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i get it just not sure if I can just state it

lost rain
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hmm the only way my mind can think of is to show ln(0.99999) and ln (1.000001)