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damnit people:p
to calculate impossible values we use limits
and what's lim(x->0) of a/x ?
exactly -infinity and +infinity
indeed, AND
both at the same time
but:
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added on the 2008-04-21 19:11:13 by magic magic
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Division by zero? Easy...
Just introduce a new number as Dr James Anderson did. Solved!
Proof:
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well... Not so random, so here goes:
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both at the same time


No, however you defiine division, a/0 must equal a/0. That means, if you allow a/0 = infinity, AND a/0 = -infinity, then infinity = -infinity. And then nothing makes sense anymore. E.g. infinity > x and -infinity < x for any x, so x < x.

Related to that is the result that the limit of a/x as x approaches zero doesn't exist, unless a=0, in which case the limit is 0. There are limits from above and below, but since they're not equal, there isn't "a limit", because that too would imply that infinity = -infinity.

In practical applications though, you usually want floating point convenitions along these lines:

a/0 = sgn(a) * infinity, a != 0
0/0 = NaN
infinity/infinity = NaN
NaN != NaN

So birds.
added on the 2008-04-21 20:25:56 by doomdoom doomdoom
stop the talk and post a random image
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added on the 2008-04-21 21:00:03 by LiraNuna LiraNuna
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added on the 2008-04-21 21:16:34 by orb orb
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oh, and: lol@LiraNuna
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Haven't seen that one since I was a kid.. it was included in a book full of caricatures and satirical cartoons that my dad had.
added on the 2008-04-21 21:34:15 by mic mic
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Nvidia GeForceFX Graphics Demo
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New Nvidia Graphics Demo?
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Related to that is the result that the limit of a/x as x approaches zero doesn't exist, unless a=0, in which case the limit is 0. There are limits from above and below


Actually, if lim_x->a f(x)=inf, (even if it's just a left or right handed limit) then the limit is not considered to exist. The statement "lim_x->a f(x)=inf" specifies the way in which the limit does not exist. This is pretty important for other theorems which depend on the fact that a limit "exists".

As for division by zero, you can pretty much get any result with limits depending on how you specify the dividend. For example, lim_x->0 (4x/x) = 4.
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since when is this random math talk? stfu and post random image! like this:
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Thanks imageshack.
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