Etymology

Cauchy

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Today it means: Of a sequence in a metric space, whose terms become arbitrarily close to one another. Full definition →

French Cauchy
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  1. French · borrowed fromCauchy
  2. French · borrowed fromCauchy
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Borrowed from French Cauchy.

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