Infinitesimal used in a sentence

Infinitesimal in a sentence as a noun

Can you sense how incredibly infinitesimal and primitive we are as a species when you look up at the night sky?

You are saying that doing calculus was, for you, much easier using the infinitesimal approach.

It's about the bigger picture: the extreme reaction to an infinitesimal threat.

Passes over the inhabited land that's infinitesimal fractions of a degree away from the target?From 36000 miles, a few miles is a rounding error.

The proportion of the population that possessed a high school diploma, much less a college degree was infinitesimal.

What if the infinitesimal had been successfully stamped out everywhere?> "I think things would have been very different," Alexander muses.

Let us presume that turning in a zero twice, plus average work for the rest, will land you an F. If there is even an infinitesimal chance of cheating and getting away with it, this tells a desperate student that the net utility of cheating on two assignments is positive.

Going by the infinitesimal number of quarters in circulation that wouldn't **** fairly, we'd say before any experiment that there's an overwhelming chance the coin is truly fair.

Infinitesimal in a sentence as an adjective

I mean sure everyone is entitled to their opinion, but the actual power that these people deserve to have over Notch is infinitesimal; it's just noise on the internet with no significance.

We can detect material from Fukushima in the Pacific, but only because we have the technology to detect radiation in infinitesimal amounts.

"Modern science, modern technology, and everything from your cell phone to this radio station to airplanes and cars and trains — it is all fundamentally dependent on this technique of infinitesimals.

I mean, you could get near-perfect just by making the filter the right shape and having several layers of filtering, thus reducing the chance of a bacteria getting through down to some infinitesimal probability...

I just can't even begin to fathom why Microsoft would go out of their way to cater to such an infinitesimal group of people who feel that a laptop is not portable enough, yet need the full functionality of god-knows-what program that probably doesn't even work properly with Windows 8.

Is it one of those things where you know really that your worry is foolish but you can't help yourself, or is your entire brain telling you that you could be in trouble?I know that it's foolish, I know that the chances are infinitesimal, and I know it's biased and unsubstantiated and based on racial prejudices which I abhor.

I suggest trying KMP and Boyer-Moore for text matching, or Miller-Rabin and AKS for primality testing, or even RSA -- RSA is terribly simple in theory, but if you don't have a clue how it's supposed to achieve its goal, and you don't have background in number theory, then your chances of understanding it just by reading the code are infinitesimal.