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Thanks!

I think you don't even need arctan for this. Just put one of Myhill's "bumps" at x=0 and shrink it down. That function approaches f(x)=0 for all x but its derivative at x=0 remains 1.




The arctan has the advantage that it's differentiable infinitely many times over R.




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