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Oscillatory Discontinuity


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An oscillatory discontinuity is a discontinuity at which a function continues to oscillate between distinct values arbitrarily near the point, so that its limit does not exist. For example, the piecewise function

 f(x)={sin(1/x)   for x!=0; (11)/(10)   for x=0
(1)

has an oscillatory discontinuity at 0. The function remains bounded, distinguishing this example from an infinite discontinuity.


See also

Discontinuity, Infinite Discontinuity, Jump Discontinuity, Removable Discontinuity

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Oscillatory Discontinuity." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/OscillatoryDiscontinuity.html

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