example of jump discontinuity
The elementary (http://planetmath.org/ElementaryFunction) real function
has a jump discontinuity at the origin, since
Indeed,
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if , then , , ;
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if , then , , .
These results can be seen also from the series of the function gotten by performing the divisions: for we obtain the converging (http://planetmath.org/Converge) alternating series
(http://planetmath.org/LeibnizEstimateForAlternatingSeries)
and for the series
Note. The derivative of the function may be written as
and thus we have the one-sided limits (see growth of exponential function).