Re: Vanishingly good?
- From: Chuck Riggs <chriggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:13:58 +0100
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:09:04 -0700, Hatunen <hatunen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
It would to me, too. That was what first occurred to me when I read
the complaint.
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".
Goodness has everything to do with it, to misquote Mae West.
--
Regards,
Chuck Riggs,
who speaks AmE, lives near Dublin, Ireland
and usually spells in BrE
.
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