In this case, 11 is the limit because we know is a continuous function whose domain is all real numbers. Thus, we can find the limit by just substituting 4 in for, so the answer is. We're not done, though, because we never proved any of the limit laws rigorously; we just stated them.
What Adams didn't know was that Jefferson had actually passed away several hours earlier. 3. THOMAS JEFFERSON. His last recorded words are No, doctor, nothing more, but the three people present at the time of his death all noted that he either stated or asked about the date shortly before his death. The date: July 4th, of course.
Photograph by AFP / Getty. Seventy years ago this week, on April 12, 1945, while he was sitting for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia, President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke what were probably his last wordsââI have a terrific headacheââand fainted. He died two hours later, of a cerebral hemorrhage. After F.D.R.âs Vice-President, Harry S. Truman, a former senator from Missouri, got the news at the Capitol, the Secret Service rushed him to the White House, where he was sworn in by Chief Justice Harlan Stone.