What is difference between undefined & indeterminant form? Then whats about 0^0? [closed]

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I really cant underatand what is exactly difference. By their it can be verified that undefined has no value at all but inderminant form we can able to evaluate its limit by various way(such as L'Hospital's rule) whether it exists.










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    nothing could be understood. please share an answer elaborately not in comment please
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  • No actually I need the difference by giving an seperate example which will be denote an indeterminat form & undefined. actually my querry is about 0^0
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    Why do you want an example? Those aren't really terms of art (unlike that of a limit itself), and the distinction you draw in the last sentence of your post is as good as any.
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I really cant underatand what is exactly difference. By their it can be verified that undefined has no value at all but inderminant form we can able to evaluate its limit by various way(such as L'Hospital's rule) whether it exists.










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    nothing could be understood. please share an answer elaborately not in comment please
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    Why does there need to be a difference? Also, it seems you give your own answer to the question in the last sentence of the question itself.
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  • No actually I need the difference by giving an seperate example which will be denote an indeterminat form & undefined. actually my querry is about 0^0
    – Priya Dey
    Sep 3 at 4:37






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    Why do you want an example? Those aren't really terms of art (unlike that of a limit itself), and the distinction you draw in the last sentence of your post is as good as any.
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I really cant underatand what is exactly difference. By their it can be verified that undefined has no value at all but inderminant form we can able to evaluate its limit by various way(such as L'Hospital's rule) whether it exists.










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I really cant underatand what is exactly difference. By their it can be verified that undefined has no value at all but inderminant form we can able to evaluate its limit by various way(such as L'Hospital's rule) whether it exists.







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    nothing could be understood. please share an answer elaborately not in comment please
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    Why does there need to be a difference? Also, it seems you give your own answer to the question in the last sentence of the question itself.
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  • No actually I need the difference by giving an seperate example which will be denote an indeterminat form & undefined. actually my querry is about 0^0
    – Priya Dey
    Sep 3 at 4:37






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    Why do you want an example? Those aren't really terms of art (unlike that of a limit itself), and the distinction you draw in the last sentence of your post is as good as any.
    – anomaly
    Sep 3 at 5:07






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    Possible duplicate of What do Indeterminate Forms mean?
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    nothing could be understood. please share an answer elaborately not in comment please
    – Priya Dey
    Sep 3 at 4:19






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    Why does there need to be a difference? Also, it seems you give your own answer to the question in the last sentence of the question itself.
    – Michael
    Sep 3 at 4:36











  • No actually I need the difference by giving an seperate example which will be denote an indeterminat form & undefined. actually my querry is about 0^0
    – Priya Dey
    Sep 3 at 4:37






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    Why do you want an example? Those aren't really terms of art (unlike that of a limit itself), and the distinction you draw in the last sentence of your post is as good as any.
    – anomaly
    Sep 3 at 5:07






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    Possible duplicate of What do Indeterminate Forms mean?
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    Sep 3 at 5:41







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nothing could be understood. please share an answer elaborately not in comment please
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nothing could be understood. please share an answer elaborately not in comment please
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Why does there need to be a difference? Also, it seems you give your own answer to the question in the last sentence of the question itself.
– Michael
Sep 3 at 4:36





Why does there need to be a difference? Also, it seems you give your own answer to the question in the last sentence of the question itself.
– Michael
Sep 3 at 4:36













No actually I need the difference by giving an seperate example which will be denote an indeterminat form & undefined. actually my querry is about 0^0
– Priya Dey
Sep 3 at 4:37




No actually I need the difference by giving an seperate example which will be denote an indeterminat form & undefined. actually my querry is about 0^0
– Priya Dey
Sep 3 at 4:37




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Why do you want an example? Those aren't really terms of art (unlike that of a limit itself), and the distinction you draw in the last sentence of your post is as good as any.
– anomaly
Sep 3 at 5:07




Why do you want an example? Those aren't really terms of art (unlike that of a limit itself), and the distinction you draw in the last sentence of your post is as good as any.
– anomaly
Sep 3 at 5:07




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Possible duplicate of What do Indeterminate Forms mean?
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Indeterminate forms generally refer to combining limits. If you have two functions $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ such that $lim_x to infty f(x)=a, lim_x to infty g(x)=b$ you can say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=a+b$. Other operations can be done similarly. It is also true that if $lim_x to infty f(x)=+infty, lim_x to infty g(x)=b$ you can say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=+infty$ if you define infinite limits in the usual way. Indeterminate forms come about when you have something like $lim_x to infty f(x)=+infty, lim_x to infty g(x)=-infty$ where you would like to say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=+infty-infty$. This is indeterminate because you can get any value. The simple combination is not sufficient and you need to look how fast $f$ and $g$ go off to $infty$ to come up with the result.



Undefined means exactly that. Division by zero is undefined. $0^0$ is undefined. This is not in reference to limits at all.






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    I tend to think of an indeterminate form as being one whose value is ambiguous in some way while leaving something undefined is done to avoid absurdity or trivialities. As for $0^0$ it's considered indeterminate because we have both $x^0=1$ and $0^x=0$ for $xneq 0$ and there is no clear means by which we can resolve this in a consistent manner.



    For comparison we leave division by zero undefined because if we don't then taking $a=b=1$ we would have $a^2-b^2=a-b$ and so $(a+b)(a-b)=a-b$ leaving us with $a+b=2=1$. We can either conclude every number is zero or that division by zero leads to contradiction so it's left undefined.






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    • I'm little bit confused whether 0^0 is undefined or indeterminant.. your logic that x^0=1 & 0^x =0,when x non zero, is it the reason for 0^0 indeterminant? if then why?
      – Priya Dey
      Sep 3 at 5:13










    • @PriyaDey The difference is ambiguity rather than absurdity. $0^0$ is open to interpretation while $fracx0$ leads directly to a contradiction.
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    • you said the case x^0=1 & 0^x=0 for non zero x,from there you concluse 0^0 is indeterminat, whats about when x=0?
      – Priya Dey
      Sep 3 at 5:19










    • @PriyaDey You must determine from context what the value of $0^0$ can be because in general it can be both. In calculus you'll do this through limits. Sometimes you pick one because it's convenient for the application in question. In those cases we have a meaningful way to interpret what it means which doesn't lead to contradiction.
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      Sep 3 at 5:24

















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    Undefined is something that is not and will never be defined. e.g dividing by zero. Is just an expression that has no sense and no possible value. On the other side, indeterminate is an expression that you can't know its value at simple sight, but it can be anything (even undefined). Some indeterminate forms are $0/0$ or $infty/infty$. These kind of expressions are usually solvable using limits, and they can have any value.



    In summary, undefined expressions are hopeless, indeterminate ones may have an answer if you work them.



    The case $0^0$ is just another example of indeterminate form, and it can be worked in various ways usually taking natural log will bring the exponent down. For example:



    $$lim_xto0 x^x=e^lim_xto0ln(x^x)=e^lim_xto0xln(x)=e^lim_xto0fracln(x)1/x$$



    So now you can use LH:



    $$e^lim_xto0frac1/x-1/x^2 = e^0=1$$






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      Indeterminate forms generally refer to combining limits. If you have two functions $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ such that $lim_x to infty f(x)=a, lim_x to infty g(x)=b$ you can say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=a+b$. Other operations can be done similarly. It is also true that if $lim_x to infty f(x)=+infty, lim_x to infty g(x)=b$ you can say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=+infty$ if you define infinite limits in the usual way. Indeterminate forms come about when you have something like $lim_x to infty f(x)=+infty, lim_x to infty g(x)=-infty$ where you would like to say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=+infty-infty$. This is indeterminate because you can get any value. The simple combination is not sufficient and you need to look how fast $f$ and $g$ go off to $infty$ to come up with the result.



      Undefined means exactly that. Division by zero is undefined. $0^0$ is undefined. This is not in reference to limits at all.






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        Indeterminate forms generally refer to combining limits. If you have two functions $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ such that $lim_x to infty f(x)=a, lim_x to infty g(x)=b$ you can say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=a+b$. Other operations can be done similarly. It is also true that if $lim_x to infty f(x)=+infty, lim_x to infty g(x)=b$ you can say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=+infty$ if you define infinite limits in the usual way. Indeterminate forms come about when you have something like $lim_x to infty f(x)=+infty, lim_x to infty g(x)=-infty$ where you would like to say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=+infty-infty$. This is indeterminate because you can get any value. The simple combination is not sufficient and you need to look how fast $f$ and $g$ go off to $infty$ to come up with the result.



        Undefined means exactly that. Division by zero is undefined. $0^0$ is undefined. This is not in reference to limits at all.






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          Indeterminate forms generally refer to combining limits. If you have two functions $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ such that $lim_x to infty f(x)=a, lim_x to infty g(x)=b$ you can say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=a+b$. Other operations can be done similarly. It is also true that if $lim_x to infty f(x)=+infty, lim_x to infty g(x)=b$ you can say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=+infty$ if you define infinite limits in the usual way. Indeterminate forms come about when you have something like $lim_x to infty f(x)=+infty, lim_x to infty g(x)=-infty$ where you would like to say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=+infty-infty$. This is indeterminate because you can get any value. The simple combination is not sufficient and you need to look how fast $f$ and $g$ go off to $infty$ to come up with the result.



          Undefined means exactly that. Division by zero is undefined. $0^0$ is undefined. This is not in reference to limits at all.






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          Indeterminate forms generally refer to combining limits. If you have two functions $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ such that $lim_x to infty f(x)=a, lim_x to infty g(x)=b$ you can say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=a+b$. Other operations can be done similarly. It is also true that if $lim_x to infty f(x)=+infty, lim_x to infty g(x)=b$ you can say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=+infty$ if you define infinite limits in the usual way. Indeterminate forms come about when you have something like $lim_x to infty f(x)=+infty, lim_x to infty g(x)=-infty$ where you would like to say $lim_x to infty f(x)+g(x)=+infty-infty$. This is indeterminate because you can get any value. The simple combination is not sufficient and you need to look how fast $f$ and $g$ go off to $infty$ to come up with the result.



          Undefined means exactly that. Division by zero is undefined. $0^0$ is undefined. This is not in reference to limits at all.







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              I tend to think of an indeterminate form as being one whose value is ambiguous in some way while leaving something undefined is done to avoid absurdity or trivialities. As for $0^0$ it's considered indeterminate because we have both $x^0=1$ and $0^x=0$ for $xneq 0$ and there is no clear means by which we can resolve this in a consistent manner.



              For comparison we leave division by zero undefined because if we don't then taking $a=b=1$ we would have $a^2-b^2=a-b$ and so $(a+b)(a-b)=a-b$ leaving us with $a+b=2=1$. We can either conclude every number is zero or that division by zero leads to contradiction so it's left undefined.






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              • I'm little bit confused whether 0^0 is undefined or indeterminant.. your logic that x^0=1 & 0^x =0,when x non zero, is it the reason for 0^0 indeterminant? if then why?
                – Priya Dey
                Sep 3 at 5:13










              • @PriyaDey The difference is ambiguity rather than absurdity. $0^0$ is open to interpretation while $fracx0$ leads directly to a contradiction.
                – CyclotomicField
                Sep 3 at 5:18










              • you said the case x^0=1 & 0^x=0 for non zero x,from there you concluse 0^0 is indeterminat, whats about when x=0?
                – Priya Dey
                Sep 3 at 5:19










              • @PriyaDey You must determine from context what the value of $0^0$ can be because in general it can be both. In calculus you'll do this through limits. Sometimes you pick one because it's convenient for the application in question. In those cases we have a meaningful way to interpret what it means which doesn't lead to contradiction.
                – CyclotomicField
                Sep 3 at 5:24














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              I tend to think of an indeterminate form as being one whose value is ambiguous in some way while leaving something undefined is done to avoid absurdity or trivialities. As for $0^0$ it's considered indeterminate because we have both $x^0=1$ and $0^x=0$ for $xneq 0$ and there is no clear means by which we can resolve this in a consistent manner.



              For comparison we leave division by zero undefined because if we don't then taking $a=b=1$ we would have $a^2-b^2=a-b$ and so $(a+b)(a-b)=a-b$ leaving us with $a+b=2=1$. We can either conclude every number is zero or that division by zero leads to contradiction so it's left undefined.






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              • I'm little bit confused whether 0^0 is undefined or indeterminant.. your logic that x^0=1 & 0^x =0,when x non zero, is it the reason for 0^0 indeterminant? if then why?
                – Priya Dey
                Sep 3 at 5:13










              • @PriyaDey The difference is ambiguity rather than absurdity. $0^0$ is open to interpretation while $fracx0$ leads directly to a contradiction.
                – CyclotomicField
                Sep 3 at 5:18










              • you said the case x^0=1 & 0^x=0 for non zero x,from there you concluse 0^0 is indeterminat, whats about when x=0?
                – Priya Dey
                Sep 3 at 5:19










              • @PriyaDey You must determine from context what the value of $0^0$ can be because in general it can be both. In calculus you'll do this through limits. Sometimes you pick one because it's convenient for the application in question. In those cases we have a meaningful way to interpret what it means which doesn't lead to contradiction.
                – CyclotomicField
                Sep 3 at 5:24












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              I tend to think of an indeterminate form as being one whose value is ambiguous in some way while leaving something undefined is done to avoid absurdity or trivialities. As for $0^0$ it's considered indeterminate because we have both $x^0=1$ and $0^x=0$ for $xneq 0$ and there is no clear means by which we can resolve this in a consistent manner.



              For comparison we leave division by zero undefined because if we don't then taking $a=b=1$ we would have $a^2-b^2=a-b$ and so $(a+b)(a-b)=a-b$ leaving us with $a+b=2=1$. We can either conclude every number is zero or that division by zero leads to contradiction so it's left undefined.






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              I tend to think of an indeterminate form as being one whose value is ambiguous in some way while leaving something undefined is done to avoid absurdity or trivialities. As for $0^0$ it's considered indeterminate because we have both $x^0=1$ and $0^x=0$ for $xneq 0$ and there is no clear means by which we can resolve this in a consistent manner.



              For comparison we leave division by zero undefined because if we don't then taking $a=b=1$ we would have $a^2-b^2=a-b$ and so $(a+b)(a-b)=a-b$ leaving us with $a+b=2=1$. We can either conclude every number is zero or that division by zero leads to contradiction so it's left undefined.







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              • I'm little bit confused whether 0^0 is undefined or indeterminant.. your logic that x^0=1 & 0^x =0,when x non zero, is it the reason for 0^0 indeterminant? if then why?
                – Priya Dey
                Sep 3 at 5:13










              • @PriyaDey The difference is ambiguity rather than absurdity. $0^0$ is open to interpretation while $fracx0$ leads directly to a contradiction.
                – CyclotomicField
                Sep 3 at 5:18










              • you said the case x^0=1 & 0^x=0 for non zero x,from there you concluse 0^0 is indeterminat, whats about when x=0?
                – Priya Dey
                Sep 3 at 5:19










              • @PriyaDey You must determine from context what the value of $0^0$ can be because in general it can be both. In calculus you'll do this through limits. Sometimes you pick one because it's convenient for the application in question. In those cases we have a meaningful way to interpret what it means which doesn't lead to contradiction.
                – CyclotomicField
                Sep 3 at 5:24
















              • I'm little bit confused whether 0^0 is undefined or indeterminant.. your logic that x^0=1 & 0^x =0,when x non zero, is it the reason for 0^0 indeterminant? if then why?
                – Priya Dey
                Sep 3 at 5:13










              • @PriyaDey The difference is ambiguity rather than absurdity. $0^0$ is open to interpretation while $fracx0$ leads directly to a contradiction.
                – CyclotomicField
                Sep 3 at 5:18










              • you said the case x^0=1 & 0^x=0 for non zero x,from there you concluse 0^0 is indeterminat, whats about when x=0?
                – Priya Dey
                Sep 3 at 5:19










              • @PriyaDey You must determine from context what the value of $0^0$ can be because in general it can be both. In calculus you'll do this through limits. Sometimes you pick one because it's convenient for the application in question. In those cases we have a meaningful way to interpret what it means which doesn't lead to contradiction.
                – CyclotomicField
                Sep 3 at 5:24















              I'm little bit confused whether 0^0 is undefined or indeterminant.. your logic that x^0=1 & 0^x =0,when x non zero, is it the reason for 0^0 indeterminant? if then why?
              – Priya Dey
              Sep 3 at 5:13




              I'm little bit confused whether 0^0 is undefined or indeterminant.. your logic that x^0=1 & 0^x =0,when x non zero, is it the reason for 0^0 indeterminant? if then why?
              – Priya Dey
              Sep 3 at 5:13












              @PriyaDey The difference is ambiguity rather than absurdity. $0^0$ is open to interpretation while $fracx0$ leads directly to a contradiction.
              – CyclotomicField
              Sep 3 at 5:18




              @PriyaDey The difference is ambiguity rather than absurdity. $0^0$ is open to interpretation while $fracx0$ leads directly to a contradiction.
              – CyclotomicField
              Sep 3 at 5:18












              you said the case x^0=1 & 0^x=0 for non zero x,from there you concluse 0^0 is indeterminat, whats about when x=0?
              – Priya Dey
              Sep 3 at 5:19




              you said the case x^0=1 & 0^x=0 for non zero x,from there you concluse 0^0 is indeterminat, whats about when x=0?
              – Priya Dey
              Sep 3 at 5:19












              @PriyaDey You must determine from context what the value of $0^0$ can be because in general it can be both. In calculus you'll do this through limits. Sometimes you pick one because it's convenient for the application in question. In those cases we have a meaningful way to interpret what it means which doesn't lead to contradiction.
              – CyclotomicField
              Sep 3 at 5:24




              @PriyaDey You must determine from context what the value of $0^0$ can be because in general it can be both. In calculus you'll do this through limits. Sometimes you pick one because it's convenient for the application in question. In those cases we have a meaningful way to interpret what it means which doesn't lead to contradiction.
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              Undefined is something that is not and will never be defined. e.g dividing by zero. Is just an expression that has no sense and no possible value. On the other side, indeterminate is an expression that you can't know its value at simple sight, but it can be anything (even undefined). Some indeterminate forms are $0/0$ or $infty/infty$. These kind of expressions are usually solvable using limits, and they can have any value.



              In summary, undefined expressions are hopeless, indeterminate ones may have an answer if you work them.



              The case $0^0$ is just another example of indeterminate form, and it can be worked in various ways usually taking natural log will bring the exponent down. For example:



              $$lim_xto0 x^x=e^lim_xto0ln(x^x)=e^lim_xto0xln(x)=e^lim_xto0fracln(x)1/x$$



              So now you can use LH:



              $$e^lim_xto0frac1/x-1/x^2 = e^0=1$$






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                Undefined is something that is not and will never be defined. e.g dividing by zero. Is just an expression that has no sense and no possible value. On the other side, indeterminate is an expression that you can't know its value at simple sight, but it can be anything (even undefined). Some indeterminate forms are $0/0$ or $infty/infty$. These kind of expressions are usually solvable using limits, and they can have any value.



                In summary, undefined expressions are hopeless, indeterminate ones may have an answer if you work them.



                The case $0^0$ is just another example of indeterminate form, and it can be worked in various ways usually taking natural log will bring the exponent down. For example:



                $$lim_xto0 x^x=e^lim_xto0ln(x^x)=e^lim_xto0xln(x)=e^lim_xto0fracln(x)1/x$$



                So now you can use LH:



                $$e^lim_xto0frac1/x-1/x^2 = e^0=1$$






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                  Undefined is something that is not and will never be defined. e.g dividing by zero. Is just an expression that has no sense and no possible value. On the other side, indeterminate is an expression that you can't know its value at simple sight, but it can be anything (even undefined). Some indeterminate forms are $0/0$ or $infty/infty$. These kind of expressions are usually solvable using limits, and they can have any value.



                  In summary, undefined expressions are hopeless, indeterminate ones may have an answer if you work them.



                  The case $0^0$ is just another example of indeterminate form, and it can be worked in various ways usually taking natural log will bring the exponent down. For example:



                  $$lim_xto0 x^x=e^lim_xto0ln(x^x)=e^lim_xto0xln(x)=e^lim_xto0fracln(x)1/x$$



                  So now you can use LH:



                  $$e^lim_xto0frac1/x-1/x^2 = e^0=1$$






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                  Undefined is something that is not and will never be defined. e.g dividing by zero. Is just an expression that has no sense and no possible value. On the other side, indeterminate is an expression that you can't know its value at simple sight, but it can be anything (even undefined). Some indeterminate forms are $0/0$ or $infty/infty$. These kind of expressions are usually solvable using limits, and they can have any value.



                  In summary, undefined expressions are hopeless, indeterminate ones may have an answer if you work them.



                  The case $0^0$ is just another example of indeterminate form, and it can be worked in various ways usually taking natural log will bring the exponent down. For example:



                  $$lim_xto0 x^x=e^lim_xto0ln(x^x)=e^lim_xto0xln(x)=e^lim_xto0fracln(x)1/x$$



                  So now you can use LH:



                  $$e^lim_xto0frac1/x-1/x^2 = e^0=1$$







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