Infinitessimal / infinitessimally: Which is correct?

[nq:1]For example: a) "The chances of that happening are infinitessimal." b) "The chances of that happening are infinitessimally small". Which (heh, if any) is correct?[/nq]
Your double 's' makes both incorrect
according to my dictionary.
If you fix the spelling, neither is really
"incorrect" but people who know the
meaning of the word will probably
regard "infinitesimally

[nq:2]For example: a) "The chances of that happening are infinitessimal." b) "The chances of that happening are infinitessimally small". Which (heh, if any) is correct?[/nq]
[nq:1]Your double 's' makes both incorrect according to my dictionary.[/nq]
And then there's that fused participle (albeit an innocuous one).
[nq:1]If you fix the spelling, neither is really "incorrect" but people

[nq:1]From google: "Infinitesimally small" 24,700 "Infinitessimally small" 459 "Infinitesimally large" 17,400 "Infinitessimally large" 267 I leave the analysis to wiser heads.[/nq]
Noted:
(1) the number of people who don't see anything wrong with "infinitesimally large" is astonishing..
(2) whether someone knows how many S's are in the word "infinitesimally" is largely independent of w

[nq:2]For example: a) "The chances of that happening are infinitessimal." b) "The chances of that happening are infinitessimally small". Which (heh, if any) is correct?[/nq]
[nq:1]Your double 's' makes both incorrect according to my dictionary.[/nq]
The chance of your being correct rapidly approaches zero. The COD10 has it right, while your dictionary has it wrong:
chance
· n.

Wow. Incredible.
[nq:1]"Infinitessimally large" 267 I leave the analysis to wiser heads.[/nq]
You didn't put your search terms in quotes. I only get 28 hits for but I get 17,400 for . The difference is that any document discussing both the infinitesimal and the infinitely large will get caught by the quoteless search, because the search terms don't have to be contiguous.

So, keep

Caught in the act. Actually, I meant to put the phrases in quotes, but my hand must have slipped on the opening quotation mark, because I went back and checked and discvered that I had put an apostrophe at the beginning instead. The error was hard to spot, and it stayed as is through the editorial changes I made to check the various things I checked.
I still find "infinitesimally large," even

[nq:2]From google: "Infinitesimally small" 24,700 "Infinitessimally small" 459 "Infinitesimally large" 17,400 "Infinitessimally large" 267 I leave the analysis to wiser heads.[/nq]
[nq:1]Noted: (1) the number of people who don't see anything wrong with "infinitesimally large" is astonishing.. (2) whether someone knows how many S's are in the word "infinitesimally" is largely independent of whe

[nq:1]Just to be contrary, if you set a dividing line at what you call large, say 10 units, and say that something is greater than 10 by an amount as small as you would like to make it, it could be called infinitesimally large.[/nq]
Ten times infintesimally small
is still infinitesimally small.
Jan

[nq:1]Just to be contrary, if you set a dividing line at what you call large, say 10 units, and say that something is greater than 10 by an amount as small as you would like to make it, it could be called infinitesimally large.[/nq]
Not in the absolute. If you changed it to the comparative 'infinitesimally larger than 10' then I would agree with you.

Peter Moylan (Email Removed)