Indeterminate forms

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Is $\dfrac{1}{\frac{0}{0}-1}$ an indeterminate form? I thought only $\dfrac 00,\,\dfrac\infty\infty$ and any form that can be represented in those two are indeterminate. Moreover, how do we know if a form is indeterminate?

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For people who says that this question doesn't reflect OP's effort, I came through it when calculating $$\lim_{t\rightarrow 0} \frac{1}{\frac{2\sin^2\frac{t}{2}\sin t}{(1-\cos t)(t-\sin t)}-1}.$$ I went to a Wikipedia page on indeterminate forms and there wasn't any mention of it.

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Let us consider the main purpose of this topic to solve the limit and discuss the method of solving it.

As I mentioned in the comments, the use of L'Hopital's rule is not determined by some or other "indeterminate forms". The theorem has very specific assumptions. Furthermore, I do not know what it means to be "completely indeterminate" and how that would specify the condition of being "indeterminate".

Suppose we needed to find $$\lim _{t\to 0} \frac{f(t)}{g(t)} $$ If $\lim _{t\to 0} f(t) = \lim_{t\to 0} g(t) =0$ OR $\lim_{t\to 0} f(t) =\pm\infty$ and $\lim _{t\to 0} g(t) =\pm\infty$, then $$\lim _{t\to 0} \frac{f(t)}{g(t)} = \lim _{t\to 0} \frac{f'(t)}{g'(t)} $$ Of course, $f$ and $g$ must be differentiable around $t=0$, but that is not an obstacle for this particular problem.