Ad infinitum
Ad infinitum是拉丁文常用短語，意「無限」、「永遠」。
描述
[編輯]在上下文中通常意味「永遠繼續、沒有限制」，可描述一永不終止的過程、一永不終止的重複過程、一永遠重複的指令。類似於短語et cetera。
例子包括：「1, 2, 3, ... continues（繼續） ad infinitum.」
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- "The perimeter of a fractal may be iteratively drawn ad infinitum."
The 17th-century writer Jonathan Swift incorporated the idea of self-similarity in the following lines from his satirical poem On Poetry: a Rhapsody (1733):
The mathematician Augustus De Morgan included similar lines in his rhyme Siphonaptera.[2]The vermin only teaze and pinch
Their foes superior by an inch.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet, in his kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind[1]
參見
[編輯]參考
[編輯]- ^ Swift, Jonathan. On Poetry: a Rhapsody. 1733 [14 December 2017]. （原始內容存檔於2022-01-21）.
- ^ De Morgan, Augustus. Smith, David Eugene , 編. A Budget of Paradoxes II 2nd. 1915: 191 [2023-01-08]. （原始內容存檔於2022-05-11）.
外部鏈接
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維基詞典中的詞條「Ad infinitum」
