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What is a asymptote?

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Answer:

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Explanation:

An asymptote is a line that continually approaches a given curve but does not meet it at any finite distance.

For example, for the rational function
f(x)=(1)/(x), there's a horizontal asymptote at y=0 because as x approaches infinity, y gets increasingly closer to 0.

Same goes for the vertical asymptote of x=0 where as y approaches infinity, x gets increasingly closer to 0.

User Emiliano Viotti
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Answer:

It is a line that continually approaches a given curve but does not meet it at any finite distance.

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