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Gass, Frederick – PRIMUS, 2006
Most beginning calculus courses spend little or no time on a technical definition of the limit concept. In most of the remaining courses, the definition presented is the traditional epsilon-delta definition. An alternative approach that bases the definition on infinite sequences has occasionally appeared in commercial textbooks but has not yet…
Descriptors: Calculus, Definitions, Scientific Concepts, Mathematical Concepts

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