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Given a compact set $K ⊂ ℂ^{N}$, for each positive integer n, let
$V^{(n)}(z)$ = $V^{(n)}_{K}(z)$ := sup{$1/(deg p) V_{p(K)}(p(z))$: p holomorphic polynomial, 1 ≤ deg p ≤ n}.
These "extremal-like" functions $V^{(n)}_{K}$ are essentially one-variable in nature and always increase to the "true" several-variable (Siciak) extremal function,
$V_{K}(z)$:= max[0, sup{1/(deg p) log|p(z)|: p holomorphic polynomial, $||p||_{K} ≤ 1$}].
Our main result is that if K is regular, then all of the functions $V^{(n)}_{K}$ are continuous; and their associated Robin functions
$ϱ_{V^{(n)}_{K}}(z) := limsup_{|λ|→∞} [V^{(n)}_{K}(λz) - log(|λ|)]$
increase to $ϱ_{K} := ϱ_{V_{K}}$ for all z outside a pluripolar set.