Clay S. Turner wrote:

> "glen herrmannsfeldt"  wrote

(snip)

>>Did you know that L'Hopital didn't invent the rule, but took
>>credit for someone else's rule?  I don't remember anymore who, but
>>it is in the book "Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea."

(snip)

> So I wonder how L'Hospital's name came to be placed on the "rule"?

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scihist.htm

is the first I find from Google.

It seems that it was given to him by Bernouli.

L'Hospital paid him as a tutor, and the rights to what he learned.

There are some good Bernouli stories in "Five Equations
that changed the world."

-- glen

"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message 
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> Clay wrote:
>
>
>> To understand how to handle the 0/0 thing, look up L'Hospital's rule.We
>> don't mind helping with workwork as long as the student:
>
> Did you know that L'Hopital didn't invent the rule, but took
> credit for someone else's rule?  I don't remember anymore who, but
> it is in the book "Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea."
>
> -- glen
>

Interesting! I'll have to look in to it.

I recall a discussion with a friend ( a gun historian) recently where he was 
telling me the history behind the Thompson machine gun. And of course 
General Thompson didn't invent it, but the inventors wanted to put 
Thompson's name on it and he finally reluctantly agreed, and that is the 
name we now know. One has to go to the actual patent to find the inventors. 
So I wonder how L'Hospital's name came to be placed on the "rule"?

Clay

Clay wrote:


> To understand how to handle the 0/0 thing, look up L'Hospital's rule.We
> don't mind helping with workwork as long as the student:

Did you know that L'Hopital didn't invent the rule, but took
credit for someone else's rule?  I don't remember anymore who, but
it is in the book "Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea."

-- glen

Hello,
To understand how to handle the 0/0 thing, look up L'Hospital's rule.We
don't mind helping with workwork as long as the student:

1) Informs us this is homework

2) Really tries to do the problem

Then we can give hints and pointers. Because the point in doing
homework is to force you to deal with real problems.

Clay

Keep in mind that you have sin(x/6)/x, not sin(x)/x

lim(x->0) of sin(x/6)/x is not 1.

Dirk

thank you very much. :)

sin(0)/0 is supposed to be 1.  If you use Matlab's Signal Processing Toolbox 
sinc function rather than explicitly using sin(x)/x, it will work properly.  See 
http://www-ccs.ucsd.edu/matlab/toolbox/signal/sinc.html or type help sinc.

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<VijaKhara@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>I am doing homework on "design of linear phase FIR filters using
> windows"
>
> The unit sample response of the FIR filter is
>
> h(n)=sin((pi./6).*(n-12))./(pi.*(n-12));
>
> The filter has 25 taps.
>
> I need to plot |H(omega)| in MATLAB
> where H is the Fourier Transform of h(n)=SUM(0->24)of
> (h(n)*exp(-j*omega*n))
>
> but I got stuck here since at n=12, the h(n) is 0/0 and MATLAB gives an
> error: "Divide by zero".
>
> How to solve the problem out?
>
> thank you very much.
>
> Sincerely yours.
> 

I am doing homework on "design of linear phase FIR filters using
windows"

The unit sample response of the FIR filter is

h(n)=sin((pi./6).*(n-12))./(pi.*(n-12));

The filter has 25 taps.

I need to plot |H(omega)| in MATLAB
where H is the Fourier Transform of h(n)=SUM(0->24)of
(h(n)*exp(-j*omega*n))

but I got stuck here since at n=12, the h(n) is 0/0 and MATLAB gives an
error: "Divide by zero".

How to solve the problem out?

thank you very much.

Sincerely yours.