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For questions on limits and colimts in the sense of category theory, and related notions.

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Limits in category theory and analysis

I have always justified this to my self by thinking: A limit of a sequence is the "best approximation" of the sequence by a single point. A limit of a diagram is the "best approximation" of the diag …
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