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The two preliminary sequence limit laws follow directly from the triangle inequality. For the sum, choose indices so that and beyond their respective cutoffs. Beyond the larger cutoff,Thus
For the reciprocal, convergence to nonzero gives eventually. The reverse triangle inequality then gives , and consequentlyChoosing the eventual error smaller than both and provesThe nonzero limit gives the denominator a positive lower bound; nonzero individual terms alone would not do so. The assumption ensures the reciprocal sequence is defined even before this eventual bound applies.
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