Proving $\lim\limits_{x\to0}{\frac{\sin(\frac{1}{x})}{\sin(\frac{1}{x})}}=1$

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I am relatively new to calculus and I'm trying to understand it rigorously. For this question, assume that I only consider the functions to have purely real domains and ranges.

I have seen that $\lim\limits_{x\to0}{\frac{\sin(\frac{1}{x})}{\sin(\frac{1}{x})}}=1$ is considered true. This is what my calculator and an online limit solver gave, so unless they are wrong, there must be a flaw in my reasoning. I do not understand it or know how to prove it using epsilon and delta. Here's what I've thought so far:

For any function f, $\frac{f(x)} {f(x)}=1$ if f is nonzero and defined at x. If these conditions are met when $|x-c|\in(0, \delta)$, the quotient is one, so any epsilon satisfies the condition. This means that to prove $\lim\limits_{x\to c}{\frac{f(x)}{f(x)}}=1$, you just need to show that f is nonzero and defined when $|x-c|\in(0, \delta)$. I don't believe this can be shown for $f(x)=\sin(\frac{1}{x})$, since it has infinitely many x-intercepts within any $\delta$.

Have I made a mistake anywhere or failed to consider something? How would this be normally demonstrated?

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The "trick" is that you only consider evaluations of the function in its domain. The point where you want to compute the limit ($x=0$) needs to be an accumulation point, and it is the case here. As for all values in the domain the ratio is $1$, this is indeed the value of the limit.