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What is an Asymptote?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

P. J. Giblin
P. J. Giblin*
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Department of Pure Mathematics, Liverpool University
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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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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 56 , Issue 398 , December 1972 , pp. 274 - 284
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1972

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