asymptote

• It turns out that this sequence does not have a zero asymptote -- you have a roughly 28\% chance of living literally forever, genuinely never dying at all, even though your chance of dying in any given millennium is always non-zero. —  April's CR Diary
• In that case, if you plot the number of record highs or lows on a graph, you'd get a line that falls gradually as time progresses toward an asymptote, which is mathematically expressed as 1/n, where n is the number of years in your data set. —  ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• With the stock market approaching the Y2K rollover like a hyperbola approaching its vertical asymptote, all talk of free software or open source as a political phenomenon falls by the wayside Maybe that's why, when LinuxWorld follows up its first two shows with a third LinuxWorld show in August, 2000, Stallman is conspicuously absent My second encounter with Stallman and his trademark gaze comes shortly after that third LinuxWorld show. —  Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
• Little by little, the mountains will be worn down to a surface of less and less relief, approaching a plain as a hyperbola approaches its asymptote--a surface which W. M. Davis has called peneplain But where will the material thus worn go? —  Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
• Little by little, the mountains will be worn down to a surface of less and less relief, approaching a plain as a hyperbola approaches its asymptote -- a surface which W.M. Davis has called peneplain. —  Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86

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