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  2. Limit of a sequence - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the limit of a sequence is the value that the terms of a sequence "tend to", and is often denoted using the symbol (e.g., ). [1] If such a limit exists and is finite, the sequence is called convergent . [ 2 ]

  3. Limit inferior and limit superior - Wikipedia

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    In mathematical analysis, limit superior and limit inferior are important tools for studying sequences of real numbers.Since the supremum and infimum of an unbounded set of real numbers may not exist (the reals are not a complete lattice), it is convenient to consider sequences in the affinely extended real number system: we add the positive and negative infinities to the real line to give the ...

  4. Set-theoretic limit - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the limit of a sequence of sets,, … (subsets of a common set ) is a set whose elements are determined by the sequence in either of two equivalent ways: (1) by upper and lower bounds on the sequence that converge monotonically to the same set (analogous to convergence of real-valued sequences) and (2) by convergence of a sequence of indicator functions which are themselves ...

  5. Limit of distributions - Wikipedia

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    Given a sequence of distributions , its limit is the distribution given by [] = []for each test function , provided that distribution exists.The existence of the limit means that (1) for each , the limit of the sequence of numbers [] exists and that (2) the linear functional defined by the above formula is continuous with respect to the topology on the space of test functions.

  6. Monotone convergence theorem - Wikipedia

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    The theorem states that if you have an infinite matrix of non-negative real numbers , such that the rows are weakly increasing and each is bounded , where the bounds are summable < then, for each column, the non decreasing column sums , are bounded hence convergent, and the limit of the column sums is equal to the sum of the "limit column ...

  7. Limit of a function - Wikipedia

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    In particular, one can no longer talk about the limit of a function at a point, but rather a limit or the set of limits at a point. A function is continuous at a limit point p of and in its domain if and only if f(p) is the (or, in the general case, a) limit of f(x) as x tends to p. There is another type of limit of a function, namely the ...

  8. Cauchy's limit theorem - Wikipedia

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    It states that for a converging sequence the sequence of the arithmetic means of its first members converges against the same limit as the original sequence, that is () with implies (+ +) / . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The theorem was found by Cauchy in 1821, [ 1 ] subsequently a number of related and generalized results were published, in particular by Otto ...

  9. Ratio test - Wikipedia

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    In this example, the ratio of adjacent terms in the blue sequence converges to L=1/2. We choose r = (L+1)/2 = 3/4. Then the blue sequence is dominated by the red sequence r k for all n ≥ 2. The red sequence converges, so the blue sequence does as well. Below is a proof of the validity of the generalized ratio test.