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    In mathematics, the limit of a sequence is the value that the terms of a sequence "tend to", and is often denoted using the lim {\displaystyle \lim }...
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  • concept of a limit of a sequence is further generalized to the concept of a limit of a topological net, and is closely related to limit and direct limit in...
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    mathematics, the limit inferior and limit superior of a sequence can be thought of as limiting (that is, eventual and extreme) bounds on the sequence. They can...
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    is the limit of the sequence (3, 3.1, 3.14, 3.141, 3.1415, ...), which is increasing. A related sequence is the sequence of decimal digits of π, that...
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  • definition of a cluster or accumulation point of a sequence generalizes to nets and filters. The similarly named notion of a limit point of a sequence (respectively...
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    of the sequence are getting closer and closer together in a way that suggests that the sequence ought to have a limit in X. Nonetheless, such a limit...
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  • mathematics, the limit of a function is a fundamental concept in calculus and analysis concerning the behavior of that function near a particular input...
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  • topology and related branches, a net or Moore–Smith sequence is a function whose domain is a directed set. The codomain of this function is usually some...
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  • mathematics, the limit of a sequence of sets A 1 , A 2 , … {\displaystyle A_{1},A_{2},\ldots } (subsets of a common set X {\displaystyle X} ) is a set whose...
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    is that a uniformly convergent sequence of continuous functions has a continuous limit. The failure of a merely pointwise-convergent limit of continuous...
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    as a continued fraction. Using calculus, e may also be represented as an infinite series, infinite product, or other types of limit of a sequence. Euler...
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  • In mathematics, a subsequential limit of a sequence is the limit of some subsequence. Every subsequential limit is a cluster point, but not conversely...
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  • definition of the mathematical notion of limit Limit of a sequence One-sided limit, either of the two limits of a function as a specified point is approached...
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    central limit theorem (CLT) states that, under appropriate conditions, the distribution of a normalized version of the sample mean converges to a standard...
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  • an iterated limit is a limit of a sequence or a limit of a function in the form lim m → ∞ lim n → ∞ a n , m = lim m → ∞ ( lim n → ∞ a n , m ) {\displaystyle...
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  • specifically in the theory of generalized functions, the limit of a sequence of distributions is the distribution that sequence approaches. The distance...
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  • gives a mild sufficient condition under which limits and integrals of a sequence of functions can be interchanged. More technically it says that if a sequence...
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    the uniform limit theorem states that the uniform limit of any sequence of continuous functions is continuous. More precisely, let X be a topological...
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  • summable and also the sequence ( a 1 , a 2 , a 3 , … ) {\displaystyle (a_{1},a_{2},a_{3},\ldots )} is summable, and otherwise, when the limit does not exist...
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  • In mathematics, an ultralimit is a geometric construction that assigns a limit metric space to a sequence of metric spaces X n {\displaystyle X_{n}} ...
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  • when a point is the limit of a sequence. Still, for some spaces that are too large in some sense, one specifies also when a point is the limit of more...
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    term of the sequence. In this sense, a limit ordinal is the limit of all smaller ordinals (indexed by itself). Put more directly, it is the supremum of the...
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  • (and only if) the limit of the sequence f n ( x ) {\displaystyle f_{n}(x)} evaluated at each point x {\displaystyle x} in the domain of f {\displaystyle...
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  • 14159. One method of deriving this formula, which originated with Archimedes, involves viewing the circle as the limit of a sequence of regular polygons...
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  • particular properties of real-valued sequences and functions that real analysis studies include convergence, limits, continuity, smoothness, differentiability...
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    {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}b&=a{\sqrt {1-e^{2}}},\\a\ell &=b^{2}.\end{aligned}}} A parabola can be obtained as the limit of a sequence of ellipses where one focus...
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  • In mathematics, the inverse limit (also called the projective limit) is a construction that allows one to "glue together" several related objects, the...
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    In mathematics, the oscillation of a function or a sequence is a number that quantifies how much that sequence or function varies between its extreme values...
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    kind of limit (a weak limit) of a sequence of functions, each member of which has a tall spike at the origin: for example, a sequence of Gaussian distributions...
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  • rate of convergence and order of convergence of a sequence that converges to a limit are any of several characterizations of how quickly that sequence approaches...
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