Notation : denotes the floor function .
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Well, there are much better ways to solve this problem (using Squeeze theorem, some inequalities etc.) but I would show a graphical approach.
Well, can you make the graph of sin ( x ) x and x sin ( x ) ? Not directly obviously but one can guess how their graphs would look like. They are just x csc ( x ) and s i n c ( x ) and we know the graphs of sin ( x ) and csc ( x ) and the x s will slightly change the graph in width etc. but the shape will remain quite a bit same.
I shall show you the graphs of both our functions and then I hope you'll realize that it is really guessable(Guesses are really important in science and mathematics, said Mr. Feynman(not exact words though))
x sin ( x ) -
sin ( x ) x -
Now, as you can see that in the first function when it is approaching 0, it is coming from the bottom and reaching the maximum and hence, greatest integer function would give a lesser value.
Similarly, in the second function, the graph is coming down to its local minima while approaching 0 and hence, greatest integer function should give a greater value.
Now, we can move to the problem,
x → 0 lim ( ⌊ sin x 1 0 0 x ⌋ + ⌊ x 9 9 sin x ⌋ ) = 1 0 0 x → 0 lim ( sin ( x ) x ) + ( 9 9 − 1 ) x → 0 lim ( x sin ( x ) ) [ 1 is subtracted since as we discussed above, the greatest integer must be less and the greatest integer less than 9 9 is 9 8 ]
hence, = 1 0 0 + 9 8 = 1 9 8