On 1 February 2015 at 15:46, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 03:11:07PM +0000, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote: > [...] >> Infinitely small: >> Smaller than the smallest thing ever and then some more. Much smaller >> than that in fact, really amazingly insignificant, a totally >> unimpressive size, real 'wow, that's small', time. Infinitely small >> is just so small that by comparison, smallness itself looks really >> humongous. Miniscule divided by meager divided by staggeringly >> infinitesimal is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. > [...] > > Wait wait wait... Miniscule *divided* by meager divided by staggeringly > infinitesimal?! Wouldn't that be a non-standard number larger than any > finite number? >
I was going for the opposite of "multiplied". Let's ignore that decimal semantics exist for a moment. :)