Take It to the Limit

new words by R. M. Panoff

Tune: Take It to the Limit (Eagles)

All along all the path of an integral
With a slope that's so constant, or flat,
I was thinking I could model things that you might have
Changing only the things that you had.
You know I've always used some Euler
(spent my life running code)
And it's all linear change
(you have to balance the load)
But if you want to model behavior
That's smooth as sand, still smoother, man,
Here's what you do

	You just iterate the integral
	Halving the time step each time
	And take it to the limit one more time.

You can spend all your time making changes
You can spend all your change making time
But if you need to find a derivative
Here's all you do
You just difference your function
Then divide by the time
And take it to the limit one more time.

  Take it to the limit, Take it to the limit,
  Just take it to the limit one more time.

When you try to find a function's slope
You may be stuck with zip over nil
You may still find the local derivative
With L'Hopital's Rule:
You just form separate derivatives
Of run and of rise
And take it to the limit one more time.

  Take it to the limit, Take it to the limit,
  Just take it to the limit one more time.