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The art of being so small you're legally and scientifically allowed to not count.
means The quality of being small or unimportant enough to be safely ignored or left out of a calculation.
from Traces back to Latin neglegere, 'to disregard or not pick up' — itself built from nec ('not') and legere ('to gather, pick, choose'). The '-ibility' ending bolted on later, turning 'can be neglected' into a measurable property, the kind scientists and accountants love to round down to zero.
- math usage
- Describes functions that vanish faster than any polynomial shrinks
- crypto role
- Security proofs call attacker success negligible, not zero
- legal cousin
- Negligence shares the root but means the opposite energy
- practical trap
- Many negligibles add up to something very noticeable