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Meow Mix: Zero, One, Infinity and the Detroit Lions

Posted: 27th September 2009 by Daniel Muth in NFL
Guillaume de L'Hospital, the great 17th century French Mathematician, wrote the first book of differential calculus and is largely credited with the invention of "L'Hospital's rule" an expression that allows for the solving of limits of indeterminate form. What does this have to do with the Detroit Lions? Well the numbers of "indeterminate form" that L'Hospital was considering, involved fractions in which zero and infinity were either divided by themselves or ...