Quite sometime ago, I noticed something interesting regarding the saw-tooth function.
\[y=\begin{cases} \lim _{ n\rightarrow \infty }{ f^{ n }\left( x \right) -x } \quad \text{ n is an even integer} \\ \lim _{ n\rightarrow \infty }{- f^{ n }\left( x \right) -x } \quad \text{ n is an odd integer} \end{cases}\] \[f\left( x \right) =\sin \left( x \right) -x\] appears to describe the saw-tooth function.
I have no idea why this is so. If anybody knows, feel free to comment it. Thanks.
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Your limit is confusing to read. I'm guessing that what you want is
y=n→∞lim(−1)nfn(x)−x.