LIMIT

Team 1 : Bui Viet Anh

Le Phuong Anh
Le Quang Anh
Do Tuan Anh
Nguyen Phuong Anh
Zeno’s paradox : Achilles and the tortoise.
• Achilles, a symbol of quickness must overtake a tortoise,
symbol of slowness. Achilles runs ten times as quick as the
tortoise and gives him ten metros odds.
Achilles runs ten meters, a tortoise runs one meter,
Achilles runs one meter, a tortoise runs one decimeter,
Achilles runs one decimeter, a tortoise runs one centimeter.
And so on until the infinity.
• Through the story above, we can have a better grasp of the
concept of ‘’limit’’.
What is “Limit’’ in calculus ?
• A limit is the value that a function (or sequence)
"approaches" as the input (or index) "approaches"
some value.
• Definition : As x approaches a, the limit of f(x) is L, written
lim 𝑓 𝑥 = 𝐿
𝑥→𝑎
if all values of f(x) are close to L for values of x that are
sufficiently close, but not equal, to a. The limit L must be a
unique real number.