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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2012 Paper 1 19 a i Solution by
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Continuity. The function is continuous at when . Equivalently, for every there exists such that within the domain of a function implies ; this is the epsilon-delta definition of continuity.
Differentiability. At an interior point , the difference quotient must have a finite two-sided limit of a function:This defines differentiability and the derivative. At an endpoint one may instead state a one-sided definition relative to the interval. Differentiability implies continuity, because the increment is times a quotient with finite limit, but continuity alone does not guarantee differentiability.
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