Why is the total differential divided by the norm of h bounded?

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I'm trying to proof the product rule for functions $f: R^{n} \to R$. There is already a good thread on this - total differential of $f+g$, $fg$ and $\frac fg$.

However, I am not sure about the last step, i.e. showing that $$\lim \limits_{h \to 0} \frac{(f(x+h)-f(x))dg_{x}(h)}{\lVert h \rVert}=0$$

As the other thread mentions in the comments

\begin{align} & \lim \limits_{h \to 0} \frac{(f(x+h)-f(x))dg_{x}(h)}{\lVert h \rVert} \\ & =\lim \limits_{h \to 0} (f(x+h)-f(x)) \lim \limits_{h \to 0} \frac{dg_{x}(h)}{\lVert h \rVert} \\ & \end{align}

and the first limit converges to $0$ by continuity of $f$ (since f is totally differentiable). So it remains to show that the second term is bounded.

But I am not sure how to do this.

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I have given this another thought and have come up with a solution.

Since $dg_{x}(h)$ is a linear map on a finite-dimensional vector space, it is a bounded linear operator which means that $\lvert dg_{x}(h)\rvert<C \|h\|, C \in \mathbb{R}$ for all $h$ (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinuous_linear_map).

Therefore, $\frac{dg_{x}(h)}{\|h\|} \leq \frac{\lvert dg_{x}(h)\rvert}{\|h\|}<C$.