Originally Posted by
bulgie
I ain't no mathemagician, but I use it as lay people do, with the second definition below (from
Wiktionary):
asymptote
(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.
If y'all solve it, patent it immediately. You'll have just invented an FTL drive, as well as a
desert topping bike storage system.
--Shannon