What is the limit of #Abs(sinx) # as x approaches infinity?

1 Answer
May 14, 2016

There is no limit.

Explanation:

Consider what happens as #x# increases without bound.

For any value of #x#, no matter how great, there are values of the form #pin# and #pi/2+pin# to the right of #x#.
Therefore there are places to the right where #abs(sinx) = 0# and places to the right where #abs(sinx) = 1#.

The values of #abs(sinx)# cannot be getting closer and closer to a single value.

A more rigorous argument can be based on the following.

If someone claims that the limit is #L#, they must show that for every positive #epsilon#, there is a number #M# such that for all #x > M#, we have #abs(abs(sinx)-L) < epsilon#

I claim that for #epsilon <= 1/2# this is not possible.