Calculus: Early Transcendentals (2nd Edition)

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Chapter 2 - Limits - 2.6 Continuity - 2.6 Exercises - Page 108: 4

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This definition is not an adequate definition of continuity, because sometimes we can not detect any holes in the graph, for example, the function $$f(x)=\frac{x^2-1}{x-1}$$ this function is not continuous at $x=1$ however its graph looks like the line $x+1$ which has no holes.
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