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13.

2: Limits and Continuity

Definition: 1. The Open disk of radius r and center P = (a, b)


D(P , r) = {

2. The open punctured disk D* (P, r) is the disk D(P , r) with its center
point is removed.
That is, D* (P, r) consists of all points whose distance to P is less than r
other than P itself.
Limit A function f ( x, y) of two variables has a limit L as a point
(x, y) approaches P = (a, b ) if |f(x, y) - L| becomes arbitrarily small
for (x, y) in a sufficiently small punctured disk D* (P, r).

Assume that f (x, y) is defined near P = (a, b ) but not necessarily at P itself.
In other words, f(x, y) is defined for all (x, y) in some
In this case, we write

Definition: Limit of a function at (a,b)


Assume that f (x, y) is defined near P = (a, b ). Then

if, for any ϵ > 0, there exists δ > 0 such that


|f(x, y) - L| < ϵ for all (x, y) ϵ D* (P, δ )

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