테일러·매클로린 급수

Our limit has the indeterminate form $1^{\infty}$; as with l'Hopital's rule, we can change it to a friendlier form using the natural logarithm.

$$\begin{aligned} f(x)&=\left(1+x+x^2\right)^{2/x}\\ \log(f(x))&=\log\left[\left(1+x+x^2\right)^{2/x}\right]=\frac{2}{x}\log\left(1+x+x^2\right) \end{aligned}$$

Recall $\log(1+y)=\displaystyle\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{(-1)^{n+1}y^n}{n}$, and set $y=x+x^2$. The series converges when $|y|<1$, and since we only consider values of $x$ that are very close to 0, we can assume $|x+x^2|<1$.

$$\begin{aligned} \log(f(x))&=\frac{2}{x}\log\left(1+(x+x^2)\right)=\frac{2}{x}\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{(-1)^{n+1}(x+x^2)^n}{n}\\ &=\frac{2}{x}\left[(x+x^2)-\frac{(x+x^2)^2}{2}+\frac{(x+x^2)^3}{3}-\cdots\right]\\ &=2+2x-\frac{(x+x^2)^2}{2x}+\frac{(x+x^2)^3}{3x}-\cdots\\ &=2+2x-\frac{(x^2+x)(1+x)}{2}+\frac{(x^2+x)^2(1+x)}{3}-\cdots\\ \lim_{x \to 0}\log(f(x))&=\lim_{x \to 0}\left[2+2x-\frac{(x^2+x)(1+x)}{2}+\frac{(x^2+x)^2(1+x)}{3}-\cdots\right] \\ &=2+0+0\cdots=2\\ \lim_{x \to 0} f(x)&=\lim_{x \to 0}e^{\log f(x)}=e^2 \end{aligned}$$