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Uniqueness of the Limit of a Real Function at a Point of an Interval

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Reason: First publication. Nonemptiness of punctured neighbourhoods and uniqueness of the limiting value, establishing that the limit notation of def:limit-function-real-2026a is well defined. · 833 chars · 2 deps · depth 12

Punctured neighbourhoods of a point of an interval containing at least two points are nonempty, and consequently at most one real number satisfies the defining condition of the limit, so the limit notation is well defined.

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In the setting of The Real Line: Standing Notation and Background for Calculus, let IRI\subseteq\mathbb{R} be an interval containing at least two points, let f:IRf:I\to\mathbb{R}, let cIc\in I, and let L,LRL,L'\in\mathbb{R}.

Then the following hold.

1. (Punctured neighbourhoods are nonempty) For every δ>0\delta>0 the set {xI:0<xc<δ}\{x\in I: 0<|x-c|<\delta\} is nonempty.

2. (Uniqueness) Suppose that LL and LL' each have the property required of the limit in Limit of a Real Function at a Point of an Interval §limit, that is, for every ε>0\varepsilon>0 there exists δ>0\delta>0 such that every xIx\in I with 0<xc<δ0<|x-c|<\delta satisfies f(x)L<ε|f(x)-L|<\varepsilon, and likewise for LL'. Then L=LL=L'.

In particular the limit limxcf(x)\lim_{x\to c}f(x) of Limit of a Real Function at a Point of an Interval is well defined.

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