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title: Asymptotes Worked Examples
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## Asymptotes Worked Examples

Asymptotes is the line of a curve as it approaches infinity, but never crosses the line indefinately.

Example,
Take the curve of f(x) = (1/x)
![img](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Hyperbola_one_over_x.svg/1600px-Hyperbola_one_over_x.svg.png)
Figure 1: curve of f(x) = (1/x)

Here you can see that the lines x = 0 and y = 0 tends to meet the curve at infinity.

### More Information:
[www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/asymptote](https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/asymptote.html)

[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote)