Re: Division by zero. Go ahead and laugh.

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 02:44:51 -0400

Lefty wrote:

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>
> I believe that the lim 1/x as x->0 is infinity. Am I wrong ?

Yes. There is no such real number as "infinity".

If you had said you can make |1/x| larger than any arbitrarily large
(finite) number by choosing x small enough, that would be correct.

Bob Kolker

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