From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Micah Stetson To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting in trying out Plan 9 Message-ID: <20040219054314.GB7914@epaphras.cnm-vra.com> References: <20040219034307.GA6275@epaphras.cnm-vra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:43:14 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ecd62768-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > >> asymtopic, no? > > > > Is that where you can never quite get to the point? ... > The point you can never get to is infinity -- sooner or later the > thing will fail... Either I'm misunderstanding you, or my joke wasn't very clear. The word you're talking about is asymptotic. Boyd spelled it "asymtopic" and I was making a pun on his misspelling. A function approaches an asymptote, but never quite gets there, so if our discussion is "asymtopic", do we approach the point (the topic) but never reach it? Maybe I needed a smiley, Micah