infinitieth
English
Etymology
Adjective
infinitieth (not comparable)
- At position infinity in a sequence.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Every number whose expression in decimals requires but a finite number of places of decimals is commensurable. Therefore, incommensurable numbers suppose an infinitieth place of decimals.
- 1979, William Lane Craig, The Kalām Cosmological Argument (page 183)
- Watling's suggestion is of no help at all in explaining how to form an actual infinite by successive addition. To do so would necessitate adding an 'infinitieth' element, which is absurd.
- 2014, The Lego Movie
- I arrived at the foot of the tower with me hearty Master Builder crew, only to find the Kragle was all the way up on the infinitieth floor, guarded by a robot army.
- Charles Sanders Peirce