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Saladsamurai
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I had a thought while doing some calculus last night and it now concerns me that for some reason I cannot answer it. If given the equations [tex]y=x[/tex] and [tex]y=x^2+1[/tex] it would appear that since the range of the latter "reaches" infinity "first" that these two curves never meet. Now that thought did not occur to me until I sketched them after I tried solving them as a system of equations.
Is there some way (not intuitively, but abstractly) to see that these two curves never intersect?
Thanks,
Casey
Is there some way (not intuitively, but abstractly) to see that these two curves never intersect?
Thanks,
Casey