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#2: Question closed by user avatar Mithical‭ · 2023-05-17T03:48:27Z (11 months ago)
#1: Initial revision by user avatar TextKit‭ · 2023-05-17T00:21:42Z (11 months ago)
Which other Real Analysis textbooks unusually recommend ending delta-epsilon proofs with a cluttered, bedecked $\epsilon$? 
1. Most textbooks conclude $\delta-\epsilon$ proofs tidily with $\epsilon > 0$ alone, as in red beneath. But what's the official term for this alternative $\delta-\epsilon$ proof, as  in green beneath?

2. I forgot the particulars of another textbook that I read, not the one quoted below. It advises concluding $\delta-\epsilon$ proofs with a littered, garnished $\epsilon$ as in red below, because it's quicker to define a new $\epsilon_2 := \text{ convoluted } \epsilon_1$ at the end (rather than working backwards to deduce byzantine, unkempt  $\delta$'s). Please recommend such textbooks? 

![Image alt text](https://math.codidact.com/uploads/ramgcid661891lqkvbpiw6um8b40)

Frank Morgan, *Real Analysis* (2005), pages 17-8.