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For the overwhelming majority of continuous curves, this definition has no meaning (in an arcwise connected component of a metric space), because the limit does not exist.
In your three equations for s_i, can we assume that j = j(i) and k = k(i) ? That is, can we assume that the j and k in those equations are each functions of i ? If not, then I do not understand the question.