Everything You Wanted to Know about Asymptotes but Were Too Afraid to Ask

Sep 14, 2020 | Hinsdale

An asymptote describes a concave line on a graph, that almost touches the x- and/or y-axis, but doesn't quite make it there. It looks like this:

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Wolfram Math World gives us a more technical definition: "An asymptote is a line or curve that approaches a given curve arbitrarily closely, as illustrated in the above diagram."

 

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