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[Calculus: ] the act of numbering and measuring exactly a Thing whose Existence cannot be conceived. (Voltaire)

And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities? (Berkeley)

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Boris Tsirelson/sandbox2. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Boris_Tsirelson/sandbox2&oldid=33459