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What does it mean when we say that the tails of the normal curve are asymptotic to the x axis?

What does it mean when we say that the tails of the normal curve are asymptotic to the x axis?
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What does it mean when we say that the tails of the normal curve are asymptotic to the x axis?

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It means that the tails never actually *touch* the x-axis, but it gets infinitesimally close to it.
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