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		dylan604 30 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: F-15E jet shot down over Iran Like my math teacher was oft heard saying, "approaches zero".

kergonath 30 days ago [–]

"Vanishingly small" is a polite way of saying it.

dylan604 30 days ago | [–]

The math teacher was more along the lines of as x approaches zero or was it f(x). It was a really really long time ago since I've had a math teacher, but the approaches zero was something said frequently

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