In most cases I think the correct phrase would be “nearly unlimited”. It unpacks to: the set of circumstances in which a limit would be reached, is nearly empty.
I don’t like that one either, it usually reflects a lack of imagination. They’re talking about the purposes we can think of now, they usually know nothing about the purposes we will find, once we have it, which haven’t been invented yet.
Would you prefer “for nearly all purposes, any bounds there might be are irrelevant”?
I’d prefer WAY BIG
In most cases I think the correct phrase would be “nearly unlimited”. It unpacks to: the set of circumstances in which a limit would be reached, is nearly empty.
I don’t like that one either, it usually reflects a lack of imagination. They’re talking about the purposes we can think of now, they usually know nothing about the purposes we will find, once we have it, which haven’t been invented yet.