Re: Vanishingly good?

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:03:47 GMT, arnow@xxxxxxxxx (Murray Arnow)
wrote:

Hatunen wrote:

Which branch of math has the term "good"?


"Good" is used in many ways in mathematics,

As a mathematical term? How?

but that surely couldn't be
of interest here.

It would to me.

The adverb "vanishingly" is used almost exclusively in
mathematics.

Usually as "vanishingly small". But I should think that
mathematically speaking that would be something like "x goes to
zero." Or "x is asymptotic to zero".


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