Introductions: The Inauguraling

“Oh ho... look, nothing up my sleeve... nothing up the other... we have here a function, nay, an EXPONENTIAL function whose rate of change is equal to itself! Believe it or not, we have a limit as h approaches zero of this function’s parameter plus h minus just the parameter. Alakazam! We can factor the original function outside of the limit and demonstrate that the limit as h approaches zero is, in fact, one! Voilà! It is not a factor at all; nothing! *saws volunteer in half*”