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
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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.
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