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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2015 Prelims Mathematics II 6 a i Solution by
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A function is differentiable on when, at each , its difference quotient has a finite limit of a function:Here and .
For sufficiently small nonzero , the difference quotient has absolute value at most , because it tends to . ConsequentlyThis is continuity at . Since was arbitrary, differentiability implies continuity on .
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