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To: DuncanWaring

0 divided by 0 should be infinity

there are an infinite number of nothings in the vast nothingness


55 posted on 07/15/2015 3:00:13 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: sten

“0 divided by 0 should be infinity”

It could be infinity, you can make an argument for that answer, like you did.

However, you can also make just as convincing an argument that the answer is 1 (dividing anything by itself equals one), or that the answer is 0 (multiplication and division are transitive, and anything multiplied by zero equals zero).

So that’s the problem. Not that you can’t make an argument that there is an answer, but that there is no good way to determine which is the correct answer.


60 posted on 07/15/2015 3:20:11 PM PDT by Boogieman
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