Re: Does any of this make sense ???
- From: "Don Kelly" <dhky@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 05:53:45 GMT
"Jim Hill" <outcrops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Pi" wrote in message news:m8flh19b786uv8c9f8lsgu7amqgdcas96t@xxxxxxxxxx
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> <snip>
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>> [Pieter]:
>> Some math: <snip>
>> <any number> / 0 = infinite
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> [Jim H]:
> That is wrong.
> More correctly, division by zero is "not defined".
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> It is easy to program a computer or electronic calculator to return
> the infinity symbol ( ? ) in response to a division by zero.
> However, it simply is not correct to do so.
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> That is why programmers arrange for these devices to return a
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> "division by zero error" instead of ?.
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> Division by zero is meaningless.
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> --
> Regards - Jim
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So is multiplication by infinity as it is the same thing. You have
multiplication of zero by infinity (or division of infinity by infinity or
division of 0 by 0 ) all undefined rather than meaningless.
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