Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematical-methods-ii-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2022/1/i/solution

The real logarithm restricts the approach to . The Taylor expansion gives
The positive first term dominates, since . Thus the requested extended limit is . There is no two-sided real limit across zero because the real logarithm is undefined for .

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