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Limits

Limits
This graph, which charts the function f(x)=1/x, shows that the value of the function approaches zero as x becomes larger and larger. Yet even as x approaches infinity, the value of the function will never quite fall to zero. Zero, therefore, is said to be the limit of this function.
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