Appendix A
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APPENDIX A
For any chosen value of ¢ we want the
distance between f(z) and L to be less than ¢.
Inabwolote value notation this ia
[s@) ~ t1<«
For our funetion and
lez - 5) - (-a]<¢
l2z -21 0 there exists a 6 > 0 such thatPage 796
[#(@) = 2] < ¢ whenle - 01 < 6 16.
Arbitrarily letting ¢=0.5 we need to find 6
in 3] < 05.
However any interval about 0 contins«
interval about such that |
point 2= 3, (with n odd) where sin }
= sin FP = £1. Therefore, there does not
exist a Einterval about 0 such that
|sin 2] < 0.5, and f(z) must be
discontinuous at z = 0.
|. By hypothesis, lim, f(z) = L which means
that given 6 > 0 such that |f(2) ~ L|<¢
there exists 6 for 0 0, let cy = Sand then
there is a 6 such that
[{2) - BL] <
it
O 0 there exists 6, and 6, such that 19.
|flz) = Ly] <$for00,| f(z)
Hence,
Jef(z) + bo(2) — a(L, + 422)
=fels(2) ~ 44) + Haz) - 14)|
Siailf(z) — Ly|+16l] 92) - 25]
<1aig + bla
‘This says that
lim [af(z) + b9(2)] = a lim f(2) + 6 lim,
a).
Given ¢ > 0,
[sl@) = 0]< Vé for 0 o(z)
throughout an open interval containing c, the
limit limitation theorem guarantees that
lim [y(2) - 9(2))
Jim, (2) - lim, o(2) > 0 or
lim J(2) > lim, o(2).
0< ||f@)| - ILI|<|f@) - L] 0 then
for all 5 such that 0<|z — ci< 6. Thus,
Ble ({s@)| - 111) 0, there exists 6 such that
|f(2) — B]