Meanings
adjectivefinitesimal (not comparable)
- not comparablemathematicsNot infinitesimal.
We suppose, however, that we consider only such different arrangements of the terms of a series as are compatible with the condition that any term which occupies a finitesimal place in any one arrangement should occupy a finitesimal place in every other arrangement.
1894, Henry John Stephen Smith, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, The Collected Mathematical Papers of Henry John Stephen Smith (page 210)
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