asymptote

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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.

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  1. noun A line whose distance to a given curve tends to zero. An asymptote may or may not intersect its associated curve.

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  • Therefore, there is no idea more efficiently inhuman, than the idea that the standard for human economic behavior should converge upon some asymptote associated with a previously established level of practiced technology. —  LaRouche's Latest
  • 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
  • · The asy environment defined in the new (1.04) version of asymptote. sty supports keyval options width, height, viewportwidth, viewportheight, and attach; the obsolete asyattach environment was removed. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • A vector graphics language that provides a framework for technical drawing asymptote-1. 43-r1.ebuild: —  Gentoo Packages
  • With respect to the mass and scale of radness on hand last friday, daddy was clearly nestled into a a much lower asymptote (math!) than he wishes were the case.
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  1. Ultimately from Greek asumptōtos, not intersecting : a-, not; see a-1 + sumptōtos, intersecting (from sumpiptein, sumptō-, to converge : sun-, syn- + piptein, to fall; see pet- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Greek ἀσύμπτωτος, not close, not falling together, from ἀ- privative + σύν, together, + πτωτός, falling, apt to fall, from πίπτειν, fall; cf. συμπίπτειν, fall together, meet.
 

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