What is a real world example of a limit? Also, ask 1 question about exponentials, logarithms or limits.

The universal law of gravitation obeys a limit and is therefore a real world example. The acceleration of gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between any two objects. Thus no matter how far one is from any object one will always be influenced by its gravity. The strength of gravity may be extremely small at far distances, but it will never be equal to zero. Since the strength of gravity decreases with distance, it is thus ever approaching zero, but will never be able to reach 0. It will just continue to get infinitely smaller. Thus the limit for the formula of the acceleration of gravity is 0 as the distance increases to infinity.

Question:  I ran into Euler’s formula and was intrigued; why does Euler’s formula equal 0? How is it possible that e to any power equals 0?

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