Re: What calculus text should I cite for l'Hopital's Rule?

In article <PZ9pc8AHRB3CFw7p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeremy Boden
<jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <1121111445.708438.298610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dan
> Piponi <google02@xxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >Karl M. Bunday said:
> >
> >> maybe MathWorld is enough.
> >> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/L HospitalsRule.html
> >
> >Good idea, maybe I'll try that. This is the 21st century after all and
> >the worst a reviewer can do is suggest another book.
> >
> >There are many calculus texts out there but due to snobbishness on my
> >part I wanted to cite at least a half respectable source rather than
> >Calculus for Dummies (unless that's actually a good book!)
> >
> For a posh sounding source, how about:-
>
> "L'Hospital, G. de L'analyse des infiniment petits pour l'intelligence
> des lignes courbes. 1696."
>
> (Bibliography in Mathworld)

But what if your hypotheses do not match the ones used in that work?
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