For , the usual unit-circle area comparison, with angles measured in radians, gives . Hence
The cosine is a continuous function at zero, so the squeeze theorem yields the right-hand limit of a function . The quotient is even, so the left-hand limit of a function is the same. Thus the limit is .
Let be the event that the origin has an open graph path to the boundary of . The graph path can be stopped on its first boundary visit, so depends on only finitely many sites. Its probability is a finite sum of terms , and is therefore a continuous function of . Also , and the König infinity lemma gives . By continuity from above of a measure,
The monotone coupling of Bernoulli percolation described below shows that is nondecreasing. For , its right limit of a function exists and is at least . For every fixed ,
Taking the infimum in proves . This proves right continuity of percolation probability throughout ; at right continuity is understood relative to the parameter domain. The argument does not interchange two uncontrolled limits.
The source is reliably encodable at rate if, for each block length , there are an encoder with at most outputs and a decoder such that the block error probability
tends to zero as .
Its information rate is the limiting information entropy per source symbol,
when this limit exists.