What is an Asymptote?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 1972 English Publisher:Informa UK LimitedJournal:The Mathematical Gazette, volume 56, pages 274-284 (issn: 0025-5572, eissn: 2056-6328,

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Authors: Giblin, P. J.;

doi: 10.2307/3617830

What is an Asymptote?

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Abstract

Consider the hyperbola y = 1/ x . (It will be convenient to restrict attention to that part for which x > 1.) Everyone will agree that the x -axis is an “asymptote” to this curve; however, different people are likely to advance different reasons for this fact.

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Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces, One-variable calculus, Elementary functions

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