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The notion of limit of a function is one of the cornerstones in Analysis. It has to do with the behaviour of a function as the variable approaches a given point, which may or may not belong to the domain of the function, as long as it is a limit point for it, also known as accumulation point.
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Here it is understood that the sign of \(+\infty \) is positive and that the sign of \(-\infty \) is negative.
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Baronti, M., De Mari, F., van der Putten, R., Venturi, I. (2016). Limits of Functions. In: Calculus Problems. UNITEXT(), vol 101. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15428-2_5
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