Single-variable calculus from first principles
A limit answers a careful question: as the input gets closer and closer to some value a, what number does the output home in on? Crucially, it doesn't matter what happens at a; maybe the function isn't even defined there. The limit is about the approach, not the destination itself.
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▶ Limits