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An Elusive Limit Question 6: Subtracting Nearly Identical Numbers can BREAK Calculators!

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Calculators gave an unclear limit for the complicated trig function because every term was nearly identical, and subtracting them resulted in a difference too small for the precision of most calculators.

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