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This chapter covers two useful types of limits (and colimits): The filtered limits, which are limits taken over preordered sets which are directed (and, more generally, over certain filtered categories), and the “ends”, which are limits obtained from certain bifunctors, and which behave like integrals.
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Mac Lane, S. (1978). Special Limits. In: Categories for the Working Mathematician. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 5. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4721-8_10
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