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 | | The reader will recall that, in the case of the integral, we freed ourselves from the geometrical intuition of area and, on the contrary, based the notion of area on the definition of the integral. |
 | | approaches a definite limit as h tends to zero, the numerator of the fraction, that is, f(x + h) - f(x), must tend to zero with h, and this fact expresses the continuity of the function f(x) at the point x. |
 | | By definition, the tangent is the limiting position of the secant and is obtained by joining P to a point Q on the curve and letting the point Q move towards P. |
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