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To: Ingtar
doesn't dividing by zero yield an infinite value?

Yes

Example.

Divide 1 by 1 and the answer is 1
Divide 1 by 1/10 and the answer is 10
Divide 1 by 1/100 and the answer is 100
Divide 1 by 1/1,000 and the answer is 1,000
Divide 1 by 1/10,000 and the answer is 10,000
Divide 1 by 1/100,000 and the answer is 100,000
Divide 1 by 1/1,000,000 and the answer is 1,000,000

This illustrates that as the absolute value of the denominator approaches zero the answer approaches infinity. 1/infinity is almost as close to zero as one can get. Therefore, dividing 1 by 1/infinity is infinity. I trust I won’t have to explain why I said “almost as close”.

122 posted on 12/08/2006 1:19:33 PM PST by MosesKnows
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To: MosesKnows

And what is infinity/pi^2? :)


133 posted on 12/08/2006 1:26:43 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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