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On 3/7/25 4:01 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote or quoted:
>> But "still almost ZERO" also is.
> 
>    So, I reckon what these folks were getting at and just couldn't
>    put into the right words is: In a framework like non-standard
>    analysis, a positive infinitesimal number multiplied by two is
>    still smaller than any positive finite number.


   A complicated way to state it .......

   Some of this "Just Depends" - as usual.

   Twice "almost zero" may, or may NOT, be relevant depending.