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Past exam of the mathematical methods II course of the University of Oxford
/
2022
/
1
/
i
/
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2026-10-25
The real
logarithm
restricts the approach to
x
→
0
+
. The
Taylor expansion
sin
x
−
x
=
−
x
3
/6
+
O
(
x
5
)
gives
x
1
+
s
i
n
x
−
x
l
n
x
=
x
3
−
6
l
n
x
(
1
+
O
(
x
2
)
)
+
x
1
.
(1)
The positive
first
term dominates, since
x
2
/∣
ln
x
∣
→
0
. Thus the requested extended
limit
is
+
∞
. There is no two-sided real
limit
across zero because the real
logarithm
is undefined for
x
<
0
.
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