[NBLUG/talk] The Romans' ban on zero

[Cal Herrmann]

Which amounts to: the Romans didn't have the mathematical concept
of _limits_, which kept them from most discoveries in physics for over a
thousand years.
Cal

 On Thu, 29 May 2003, augie wrote:
> 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.