Re: Is zero even or odd?

From: Nicholas O. Lindan (see_at_sig.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:56:47 GMT

"Richards Noah (IFR LIT MET)" <Noah.Richards@infineon.com> wrote

> Wrong- where do you get off saying (2*0)/0= 2*(0/0) ?

The Dorsh Road stop on the #9 line. But thank you for your
kind and thoughtful response. You maybe got off a few stops
earlier?

If I treat 0 as an imaginary number, which is what it may
be - what with the way imaginations go wild over the subject,
then 0 <> (2 * 0), as are sqrt(-1) <> 2*sqrt(-1) and
oo <> 2 * oo.

On adding to infinity there is much controversy, some claim

 1 + oo <> oo + 1

This gets multiple infinities out of some paradox but is
too bizarre even for me.

There is also a school of thought:

 oo < n * oo

Some reject multiplication and claim the next infinity worth
talking about is:

 oo = n + oo = n * oo < oo^oo

Infinity, like 0, seems to be imaginary. Nobody can produce
-nothing-, as nobody can produce -everything-.

But to claim:

 n / 0 is illegal and Sister Prudence will rap your knuckles if
 you think otherwise.

Well, how petit bourgeois can one get?

Angels and pin-heads anyone? At least Sister Pru would approve.

                    * * *

Slightly OT, is there an accepted ASCII-gram for square root?

And shouldn't someone add a travel cruise group to the distribution. 

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