Infinitesimally Insignificant Arguments

Infinitesimally Insignificant Arguments
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Ever notice how mathematicians can prove anything? Here we have someone using non-standard analysis to justify that ε-inch is technically not zero... just infinitesimally small. The mathematical equivalent of "it's not the size that matters" while simultaneously proving that, well, it absolutely doesn't exist in any meaningful way. Poor guy's trying to use advanced calculus to win an argument he's already lost squared.

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