A Quote by Jean le Rond d'Alembert

One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

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Jean le Rond d'Alembert
French - Mathematician
November 16, 1717 - October 29, 1783

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