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Comment author: fubarobfusco 02 February 2013 05:03:49AM 2 points [-]

I don't expect extreme examples to lead to good guidance for non-extreme ones.

Two functions may both approach infinity, and yet have a finite ratio between them.

Hard cases make bad law.