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Jackson6612 Posted 14 years ago
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Gets near/nearer to...

Hi

Which one should be used, near/nearer? Please help me with it. Thank you.

It tells us how a mathematical function behaves as the independent variable gets near/nearer to the value under consideration.

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Jackson
  

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Hello Jackson6612, The credit for the following goes to the author who published the article of Limit of a function. org/wiki/Limit_of_a_function The function has a limit L at an input p if f(x) is "close" to L whenever x is "close" to p. In other words, f(x) becomes closer and closer to L as x moves closer and closer to p.

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  • Hello Jackson6612, The credit for the following goes to the author who published the article of Limit of a function.
  • org/wiki/Limit_of_a_function The function has a limit L at an input p if f(x) is "close" to L whenever x is "close" to p.
  • In other words, f(x) becomes closer and closer to L as x moves closer and closer to p.
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Hello Jackson6612,

The credit for the following goes to the author who published the article of Limit of a function. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_of_a_function

The function has a limit L at an input p if f(x) is "close" to L whenever x is "close" to p. In other words, f(x) becomes closer and closer to L as x moves closer and closer to p.
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Jackson6612Which one should be used, near/nearer?
It seems to me that you are talking about continuous changes dependent on the nearness of certain values. In other words there is probably no division of values into those that are near and those that are not near - no magic boundary. That sounds to me like the exact situation that requires "nearer".
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