asymptotically

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Man's last mind paused before fusion, looking over a space that included nothing but the dregs of one last dark star and nothing besides but incredibly thin matter, agitated randomly by the tag ends of heat wearing out, asymptotically, to the absolute zero.

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  1. In an asymptotical manner; in a manner so as gradually to approach indefinitely near, though never to meet. The theory is not a thing complete from the first, but a thing which grows, as it were, asymptotically towards certainty. Tyndall. The curve approaches … asymptotically. G. M. Minchin, Statics, I. 180.

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  • Man's last mind paused before fusion, looking over a space that included nothing but the dregs of one last dark star and nothing besides but incredibly thin matter, agitated randomly by the tag ends of heat wearing out, asymptotically, to the absolute zero. —  MAKE Magazine
  • We also fix a star-shaped region can be computed asymptotically, indeed it is not hard (basically just several variable calculus) to show that where L is the light cone of Q, and A is the area element., —  What's new
  • There is certainly a limit where what is known in the art can, asymptotically, approach obviousness, even in the absence of any known nucleic acid sequence. —  Patent Docs
  • The latter is in the spirit of computational geometry papers: it demonstrates an algorithm that runs (asymptotically) in the fastest possible time, but in practice you'll probably want to use an approximation that looks just as good. —  Planet Haskell
  • Tetration at b = exp (1 / e), asymptotically —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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