finitely
- adverb
- /ˈfɪnɪtli/
- So back a few decades ago, we did know that if it wasn't true, there would be only finitely many exceptions.
If it wasn't true, there would be only finitely many exceptions.
- If it wasn't true, there would be only finitely many exceptions.
- So there's always finitely many independent variables.
- OK, so finitely terminating sequences are dense in little LP.
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With a finite budget, we can only plan finitely for the event.
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Why we call it a photon is because we have observed that under certain circumstances, we can finitely categorize certain types of events and associate them with things we call particles.
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What we need to do is get finitely many of these open balls for open cover.
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Then, because it can only take finitely many values modulo n, there must be two the same.
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But at the end of the paper, he says, look, we've only had time to establish finitely many explicit conventions.
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If it wasn't true, there would be only finitely many exceptions.
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No finitely excited state of the harmonic oscillator or of particle physics can produce the loop result.
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Coming back a little, within this 'uncertainty paradigm,' every decision can only be finitely informed; we can look at only so many options, so many possible futures or outcomes.
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For systems with finitely many states, these problems are decidable, i.e., can be solved by a computer in a finite number of steps, since they reduce to searches on finite graphs.
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The project must be completed in finitely defined stages to stay on schedule.
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Etymology
Finitely comes from the Latin root finis meaning 'end' and is the -ly form of finite, the same root you see in final and finish. So, to do something finitely is to do it with a limit or an end, not forever.