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Limits

This section covers limits and some other precalculus topics.

Definition

$\lim_{x\to n}f(x)$ is the value that $f(x)$ approaches as $x$ approaches $n$ .

$\lim_{x\uparrow n}f(x)$ is the value that $f(x)$ approaches as $x$ approaches $n$ from values of $x$ less than $n$ .

$\lim_{x\downarrow n}f(x)$ is the value that $f(x)$ approaches as $x$ approaches $n$ from values of $x$ more than $n$ .

If $\lim_{x\to n}f(x)=f(n)$ , then $f(x)$ is said to be continuous in $n$ .

Properties

Let $f$ and $g$ be real functions. Then:

Squeeze Play Theorem (or Sandwich Theorem)

Suppose $f(x)$ is between $g(x)$ and $h(x)$ for all $x$ in the neighborhood of $S$ . If $g$ and $h$ approach some common limit L as $x$ approaches $S$ , then $\lim_{x\to S}f(x)=L$ .

Diverging-Converging Theorem

A series $\sum_{i=0}^{\infty}S_i$ converges iff $\lim S_i=0$ .

Focus Theorem

The statement $\lim_{x\to n}f(x)=L$ is equivalent to: given a positive number $\epsilon$ , there is a positive number $\gamma$ such that $0<|x-n|<\gamma\Rightarrow |f(x)-L|<\epsilon$ .

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