supertask
nounEtymology From super- + task.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences A quantifiably infinite number of operations that occur sequentially within a finite interval of time.
- One might object that this scenario is truly a fiction, but the recent literature on supertasks shows that, although their reality is definitely still not established, at least its plausibility can be argued for.2008 January 31, Bart Van Kerkhove, Jean Paul Van Bendegem, “Pi on Earth, or Mathematics in the Real World”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3, →DOI:
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