[NBLUG/talk] The Romans' ban on zero

augie schwer at sonic.net
Thu May 29 11:51:01 PDT 2003


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Eric Eisenhart wrote:
>>So 1/0 = infinity.
[...]
> Hence, n/0 = undefined.  It's not 0.  It's not n.  It's not 1.  It's
> not infinity.

yah. infinity is not a number so a better way to say the above would be:

as n approaches 0 the function 1/n approaches infinity.

augie.


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