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Epsilon-delta continuity visualizer

What you are seeing: the continuity of f(x)=sinxf(x) = \sin x at a point x0x_0. The horizontal yellow band has half-width ϵ\epsilon around f(x0)f(x_0); the vertical band has half-width δmax(ϵ)\delta_{\max}(\epsilon), the largest δ\delta for which xx0<δ|x - x_0| \lt \delta implies f(x)f(x0)<ϵ|f(x) - f(x_0)| \lt \epsilon. The implication holds exactly inside the box.

Figure 1. Continuity of sin x as an epsilon-delta box.
x_00.5
epsilon0.20

WHAT TO TRY

  • Vary each control and watch the rail readouts respond.
  • Compare the diagnostic plot against the live scene.