Vitally, last September Wiggins took Cancellara's scalp at the world championships; this February, it was Martin's hanging from his belt, by an infinitesimal margin – less than a second – at the Tour of Algarve.
Knight Trading, which neither admitted nor denied the allegations, said the settlement covers an "infinitesimal" number of transactions, less than one-half of 1percentt of those handled by Knight.
Today, its infinitesimal U.S. market share (less than 0.1%) is probably sustained only by its cult status among computer jocks.
Since he regarded continua as purely ideal entities, it was then perfectly consistent for him to maintain, as he did, that infinitesimal quantities themselves are no less ideal simply useful fictions, introduced to shorten arguments and aid insight.
The other important thing to note is that annual deaths from all animal causes combined (about 200) are just an infinitesimal fraction of total deaths -- less than 0.008 percent of all deaths each year, according to a 2012 study.
Politely secretive yesterday WeatherAction, Piers Corbyn HQ: service office in Borough High Street Staff: "Less than 20" Profit: "Infinitesimal compared to the other guys" Style Michael Fishh meets Nutty Professor (Mr Corbyn has a first-class degree in physics).
Four couples on White Oak Circle, a sloping cul-de-sac in this gracious, Republican-leaning suburb of Pittsburgh, shared their reactions as the convention unfolded and largely concurred that for them, it held little excitement, less suspense and an infinitesimal chance of changing their minds about anything.
Combining the bottom-up and top-down genetic variation may lead to a less clear result since infinitesimal effects contributed more to the additive genetic variance than markers, and the estimates of this component were close to each other when using two approaches (Table 2).
There was an infinitesimal risk attached, but it was much less than – say – the long-term consumption of junk food.
In general, we call a hyperreal a infinitesimal if its absolute value |a| is less than 1/n+1 for every n ∈ ℕ.
