This involves the definiteness of things and especially their number, so that neither their infinity, infinite extension, nor infinite divisibility can be assumed.
The exponential distribution exhibits infinite divisibility.
The continuous nature of time and its infinite divisibility was addressed by Aristotle in his Physics, where he wrote on Zeno's paradoxes.
One may speak of infinite divisibility, or the lack thereof, of matter, space, time, money, or abstract mathematical objects such as the continuum.
Andrew Pyle gives a lucid account of infinite divisibility in the first few pages of his Atomism and its Critics.
The concept of infinite divisibility of probability distributions was introduced in 1929 by Bruno de Finetti.
The gamma distribution exhibits infinite divisibility.
Davies in his paper "Building Infinite Machines" concocted a device which he claims is physically possible up to infinite divisibility.
At the other extreme from indecomposability is infinite divisibility.
Using a mathematical approach, specifically geometric models, Gottfried Leibniz and Descartes discussed the infinite divisibility of extension.