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of, pertaining to, or discovered by Archimedes; of or pertaining to any ordered field, as the field of real numbers, having the property that for any two unequal positive elements there is an integral multiple of the smaller which is greater than the larger

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  • He wrote a couple of books, but he never really achieved what he called his Archimedean point.
  • A leader in this Archimedean-Baconian reaction was
  • The former is styled the Archimedean, the latter the Phantom
  • Robin believes in an Archimedean point for using theory, I do not.
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