Ad infinitum
Ad infinitum
描述
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- "The perimeter of a fractal may be iteratively drawn ad infinitum."
The 17th-century writer Jonathan Swift incorporated the idea of self-similarity in the following lines from his satirical poem On Poetry: a Rhapsody (1733):
The mathematician Augustus De Morgan included similar lines in his rhyme Siphonaptera.[2]The vermin only teaze and pinch
Their foes superior by an inch.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet, in his kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind[1]
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[參考
[- ^ Swift, Jonathan. On Poetry: a Rhapsody. 1733 [14 December 2017]. (
原始 內容存 檔於2022-01-21). - ^ De Morgan, Augustus. Smith, David Eugene ,
編 . A Budget of Paradoxes II 2nd. 1915: 191 [2023-01-08]. (原始 內容存 檔於2022-05-11).
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詞 典 中 的 詞 條 「Ad infinitum」