Re: Is zero even or odd?

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 12/20/04


Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:19:46 +0000 (UTC)


"John Woodgate" <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote in message
news:QM1RleEHRvxBFwlq@jmwa.demon.co.uk...
> I read in sci.electronics.design that Nicholas O. Lindan
<see@sig.com>
> wrote (in <PjCxd.4752$yK.1793@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>)
about
> 'Is zero even or odd?', on Mon, 20 Dec 2004:
>
> >"John Sefton" <john@petcom.com> wrote
> >
> >> 0 can't be divided by itself,
> >
> >Sure it can: 0 / 0 = 0 * (1 / 0) = 0 * infinity = 1
>
> One possible solution, given the enormous lack of rigour in
'infinity'.

There is no lack of rigour in the definition of infinity. Read anbout
the work of Cantor, Dedekind and others.

[snip]

Franz



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