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Use the derivative definition and the specified value :
The last factor tends to one. Therefore the limit is zero when , equals when , and diverges to when . A finite derivative exists exactly when
In particular gives continuity without differentiability. The threshold is an example of regularity of a power times a function with a simple zero.

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