We did limits of functions recently and I am wondering why we always required that x0 is a cluster point of the domain. Why would taking the limit not work if x0 is not a cluster point?
Our definition of a limit of a function is
Let D⊆R be a subset, x0 a cluster point of D and f:D→R a function. We say f converges to L∈R and write lim \iff \forall \varepsilon \gt 0 \, \exists \delta \gt 0 \, \forall x \in D \setminus \{x_0\}: |x-x_0| \lt \delta \implies |f(x)-L| \lt \varepsilon
Our definition of a cluster point is
Let D \subseteq \mathbb R be a subset and x_0\in \mathbb {R}. We say x_0 is a cluster point of D \iff for every \delta \gt 0 we have D \cap (x_0-\delta, x_0-\delta) \setminus \{x_0\} \neq \emptyset
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