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<p>in which the compounding period becomes infinitesimally small, achieved by taking the limit as the number of compounding periods per year goes to infinity.</p>

<p>A limiting case is sometimes a <a href="page.php?w=Degeneracy_%28mathematics%29">degenerate case</a> in which some qualitative properties differ from the corresponding <a href="page.php?w=Generic_property">properties of the generic case</a>. For example:</p>

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*A <a href="page.php?w=Point_%28geometry%29">point</a> is a degenerate <a href="page.php?w=circle">circle</a>, whose <a href="page.php?w=radius">radius</a></p><p>
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