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Re: Division by Zero
Posted By: wintermute, on host 195.153.64.90
Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2001, at 00:36:23
In Reply To: Re: Division by Zero posted by Matthew on Tuesday, July 3, 2001, at 12:36:14:

> > > I hereby define x/0 to be 0 for all real x.
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> > Surely it would be more sensible to define x/0 to be infinity for all real cases of x.
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> I wanted to stay in the reals. The reals do not contain infinity. With my definition, for any real a and b, a/b exists and is real.

But if you define x/0 = 0, then surely 0² = x. if x is "any real number", how does this impact maths as a whole?

winter"0^n = 0 for any real n except 0"mute

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