Sorry if this question is not adaquete for this subreddit; r/Desmos is dead, so r/math is the first alternative.
Desmos is a free graphing program. It accepts most functions in the form of f(x)=x. It can also calculate derivatives, which is really awesome if you are a math teacher trying to explain why a derivative relates to the slope of a function at a point.
Now to address my question: how can I find a limit in Desmos? If I have the function f(x)=sin(x)/x , the limit is clearly 1. Desmos does actually seem to sort of indicate this; it uses an open point instead of a closed point at x=0 for this function. Despite this, I can't define that anywhere else. There is no "limit" notation in Desmos. If there was, SO much more could be done, mainly anti-derivative stuff.
Is there a way to do it? I have a neat little graph set up to find the arc length of a given function between two points. I can't finish the parameters of the graph, however, because doing so would require finding the limit of a summation. Summations, by the way, are available in Desmos. So what gives? Why is there no limit notation? I understand there not being integral notation, since that is many orders of magnitude more complex in terms of programming than derivatives, but a limit should be simple. Is there some kind of way to define a limit?
By the way, I apologize if this post is too wordy or seems full of non-sequiturs. It's quite late.
Oh! And if anyone knows a way to contact the desmos team, that would help a lot. I would like to speak to them about this and see if they are working on implementing this (if it is possible), or if they are too busy to do so.
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Our servers have a hard limit of 5 Mb on request bodies. You can make graph states larger than that on your local machine; you just can't save them to desmos.com. And even with relatively compact graphs you can certainly make things that take extremely long to render, in which case we'll keep trying until your browser runs out of resources.
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