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To: ILikeFriedman
Your point

(a+b)=(a-b)/(a-b)=1

Then means (by resubstituting a=b=1)

1+1=(1-1)/(1-1)=1
2 = 0/0 = 1

You can't divide by 0.
158 posted on 11/09/2005 6:23:39 AM PST by Cronos (Never forget 9/11. Restore Hagia Sophia!)
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To: Cronos
You can't divide by 0.

Sure you can, and this is a meaningful result. 0/0 (ie "indeterminate") is logically different from, say [a positive real]/0 (eg 1/0 = "undefined".) 0/0 could be anything - 1, 3.5, pi, you name it. The point is that on a meaningfully infinite scale, 1 and 2 (or any two other positive reals) are exactly the same.
177 posted on 11/09/2005 11:47:31 PM PST by notfornothing
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