Re: Distinct linear orderings on Z

From: Dave Rusin (rusin_at_vesuvius.math.niu.edu)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: 22 Mar 2005 20:01:59 GMT

In article <42403d66.64502008@netnews.att.net>,
Lester Zick <lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net> wrote more words which,
as far as I can tell, are not really related to mathematics or to
sci.math (where I am reading this), except for one which I cannot
manage to leave without a reply:

>> (c) To say that L'Hopital's rule is related to tangents is a tremendous
>> stretch of analogy
>
>Or an exactly apt description.

It's an apt description of WHAT? Could you kindly state LHopital's rule?

Just FYI, the One True Source Of Earthly Wisdom, which is Google, finds
that only 5-10% of all web pages which match "LHopital" or any variant
will also match "tangents", and the matches are, to my way of thinking,
essentially accidental. Hardly "an exactly apt description". So, again,
do you know what L'Hopital's rule says?

dave