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infinitieth
infinitieth
English
Adjective
infinitieth (not comparable)
- At position infinity in a sequence.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Every number whose expression in decimals requires but a finite number of places of decimals is commensurable. Therefore, incommensurable numbers suppose an infinitieth place of decimals.
- 1979, William Lane Craig, The Kalām Cosmological Argument (page 183)
- Watling's suggestion is of no help at all in explaining how to form an actual infinite by successive addition. To do so would necessitate adding an 'infinitieth' element, which is absurd.
- Charles Sanders Peirce