We can't use both. The answer is to use the one with the smaller absolute value: With this definition of. A slightly different formal definition of the limit is used when x goes to +/- infinity, since we really cannot subtract x from infinity or vice versa-remember, infinity is a concept, not a number. Formally, the expression. Means that.
During the long interval of the Precambrian Era (which includes approximately 90% of geologic time and includes three Eons: the Hadean, the Archean and the Proterozoic) the only inhabitants of the Earth were simple microscopic organisms, many of them comparable in size and complexity to modern-day bacteria.
It was early in the Archean that life first appeared on Earth. Our oldest fossils date to roughly 3.5 billion years ago, and consist of bacteria microfossils. In fact, all life during the more than one billion years of the Archean was bacterial. The Archean coast was home to mounded colonies of photosynthetic bacteria called stromatolites.