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A common example of a vertical asymptote is the case of a rational function at a point x such that the denominator is zero and the numerator is non-zero. If a function has a vertical asymptote, then it isn't necessarily true that the derivative of the function has a vertical asymptote at the same place. An example is
An example of an important asymptotic result is the prime number theorem. Let π(x) denote the prime-counting function (which is not directly related to the constant pi), i.e. π(x) is the number of prime numbers that are less than or equal to x. Then the theorem states that .
First we define an asymptotic scale, and then give the formal definition of an asymptotic expansion. If is a sequence of continuous functions on some domain, and if is a limit point of the domain, then the sequence constitutes an asymptotic scale if for every n,
A sigmoid function is constrained by a pair of horizontal asymptotes as . A sigmoid function is convex for values less than a particular point, and it is concave for values greater than that point: in many of the examples here, that point is 0.
A polynomial function is one that has the form = + + + + + where n is a non-negative integer that defines the degree of the polynomial. A polynomial with a degree of 0 is simply a constant function; with a degree of 1 is a line; with a degree of 2 is a quadratic; with a degree of 3 is a cubic, and so on.
An algebraic curve in the Euclidean plane is the set of the points whose coordinates are the solutions of a bivariate polynomial equation p(x, y) = 0.This equation is often called the implicit equation of the curve, in contrast to the curves that are the graph of a function defining explicitly y as a function of x.
For example, in order theory, an order-preserving function : between particular types of partially ordered sets and is continuous if for each directed subset of , we have () = (). Here sup {\displaystyle \,\sup \,} is the supremum with respect to the orderings in X {\displaystyle X} and Y , {\displaystyle Y,} respectively.
For example, + = because for every N > 0, we can take δ = e −N such that for all real x > 0, if 0 < x − 0 < δ, then f(x) < −N. Limits involving infinity are connected with the concept of asymptotes.