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Calculus- Early Transcendentals, 2021a

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104 Limits<br />

On the other hand, if f is defined on an open interval containing a, except perhaps at a, we can say<br />

that f is discontinuous at a if f is not continuous at a.<br />

Graphically, you can think of continuity as being able to draw your function without having to lift your<br />

pencil off the paper. If your pencil has to jump off the page to continue drawing the function, then the<br />

function is not continuous at that point. This is illustrated in Figure 3.3(b) where if we tried to draw the<br />

function (from left to right) we need to lift our pencil off the page once we reach the point x = 1inorder<br />

to be able to continue drawing the function.

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