Re: Question about divisors of zero


Pubkeybreaker wrote:
rtonyreeder@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
aone1504@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have a basic question about divisors of zero.


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Dividing by zero generates infinities, i.e., a/0 is infinity.

BZZZT. Wrong.

Thank you for playing.

a/0 is not infinity.
a/0 isn't anything at all. It isn't a number, it isn't a grape, it
isn't a herring, etc.

It is UNDEFINED.


If you
have a general function divided by zero, such is not the case, i.e.,
f(x)/x when x goes to zero.

This is not a sentence.

Why not? (The verb is "is", and the subject is "such", i.e., the
previous sentence.)

--- Christopher Heckman

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