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Removable and Jump Discontinuities - Differential Calculus

Let us look at the following functions :

Removable and Jump Discontinuities


Let us look at the following functions :

(i) f(x) = sinx / x

(ii) g ( x ) = C ( x), where C(x) is as defined in Example 9.37.

The function f(x) is defined at all points of the real line except x = 0. That is, f(0) is undefined, but exists. If we redefine the function f(x) as


h is defined at all points of the real line including x = 0. Moreover, h is continuous at x =0 since


Note that h(x) = f(x) for all x 0. Even though the original function f(x) fails to be continuous at x = 0, the redefined function became continuous at 0. That is, we could remove the discontinuity by redefining the function. Such discontinuous points are called removable discontinuities. This example leads us to have the following.


Definition 9.10

A function f defined on an interval I ⊆ R is said to have removable discontinuity at x0 I  if there is a function h:I→R such that

h(x) =


Note that for removable discontinuity, limx x0 f (x) must exist.

Now if we examine the function g(x) = C(x) (see Example 9.38) , eventhough it is defined at all points of  [0, ∞), lim x→100 g (x) does not exist and it has a jump of height lim x →100+ g (x ) − lim x→100− g (x) = 16 − 14 = 2, which is finite. Since lim x→100 g (x) does not exist, it is not continuous at x = 100. Such discontinuities are called jump discontinuities. Thus we have the following :


Definition 9.11

Let f be a function defined on an interval I R. Then f is said to have jump discontinuity at a point x0 I if f is defined at x0,


EXERCISE 9.5







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