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Old 11-30-25 | 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Doc Sharptail
**Gurgle**
For a guy that considers himself at last knowledgeable on some words, this one's certainly a headscratcher.
Do enlighten us less edumacated rabble.

-D.S.
I ain't no mathemagician, but I use it as lay people do, with the second definition below (from Wiktionary):
asymptote
(1) (mathematical analysis) A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely as it goes to infinity. The limit of the curve; its tangent "at infinity".
(2) (by extension, figuratively) Anything which comes near to but never meets something else.
So, my number of bike storage hooks, graphed as a function of time, keeps getting larger. Does it approach some asymptote that it can never exceed, or is it in fact infinite? Logic suggests the former, since my basement is finite and there's a limit to how tightly you can pack bikes together. But we have our best minds working on a solution to that.
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