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SubjectRe: 2.0.30 - its all a numbers game, I tell ya!
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On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Taner Halicioglu wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Chairudin S. Harjo wrote:
>
> > Tony Knight wrote:
> >
> > > 2 * 1 + 0 = 2 + 0 / 30
> > 2 * 1 / 0 = 2 . 0 . 30
> >
> > This one is wrong!!!
> > Any number divided by 0 is infinite.
> > So...the left side is infinite, the right side is not.
>
> no. Any non-zero number divided by zero results in an infinite answer.
> 0/0, however, is strictly "undefined".
>
> 3/0 = X is the same as X*0 = 3, thus X=infinity

If this was true, then "infinity" * 0 == 3 would be true, but it is not.
Any number multiplied by 0 is always 0, thus X cannot be a number (as
someone else pointed out, this is probably why IEEE notates it as "NaN").

>
> 0/0 = X is the same as X*0 = 0, thus X can be ANY number (thus,
> undefined).

I'll buy that. :-) Or perhaps rather than undefined, X is the set of all
real numbers (well, complex too).

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