Introduction to Asymptotes

A detailed tutorial on how to find asymptotes. Step by step tutorial including several examples of how to find asymptotes for reference.

An asymptote of a curve is a way of describing the behavior of the curve above the origin by comparing it to another curve. The second curve is considered an asymptote of the first if the distance between the two approaches zero as the points themselves extend to infinity. Another way of describing this is that the first curve gets closer to the second as it gets farther from the origin. If the asymptote is a straight line, it is called a linear asymptote.

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