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What is an asymptote OF A FUNCTION? I know it is a type of graph but how is it also a number? How do you find this number? Is it just a random point in the graph?
What is an asymptote OF A FUNCTION? I know it is a type of graph but how is it also a number? How do you find this number? Is it just a random point in the graph?
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The asymptote of a function is a value that the function approaches but never reaches.
In this case it is y = h
In the following example with a = 1, b = 2, c = 10 and h = 3, the asymptote is y = 3 and the zero of the function is 3.5. (The lines are very close but they never meet even though it is hard to see because of a lack of precision: it is hard to draw lines that are infinitely thin...)
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