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- From: israel@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert B. Israel)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Forcing f(x) to have horizontal asymptote at +infinity
- Date: 16 Dec 92 18:01:28 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- In <2317@sjfc.UUCP> dmc@sjfc.UUCP (Cass Dan) writes:
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- >My question is: what conditions must be imposed on the derivative
- >f'(x) of a function f(x) in order to cause it to necessarily have
- >a horizontal asymptote as x --> +infinity ?
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- It's very simple. The necessary and sufficient condition is that
- the improper integral int_a^infinity f'(x) dx converges (for some fixed a).
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