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Now That’s the Limit!

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We have seen examples for infinite sequences throughout this book; in Chap. 19 we finally defined them officially as functions whose domain is the set of natural numbers or, equivalently, as the elements of the infinite Cartesian product X for some set X. In this chapter we study the most important attribute of some sequences: their limits.

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© 2013 Béla Bajnok

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Bajnok, B. (2013). Now That’s the Limit!. In: An Invitation to Abstract Mathematics. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6636-9_20

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