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minus-squareWugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoYeah, 1 is a very strange number, but have you heard of 0?
minus-squareshneancy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agowhat i’m mad about is that you can divide by infinity and get zero, but you can’t divide by 0 and get infinity. make up your minds maths people
minus-squarealsimoneau@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoOh you totally can (as long as you’re working with implied limits, which you have to if infinity is in the mix), you just have to specify if it’s a positive or negative zero.
Yeah, 1 is a very strange number, but have you heard of 0?
what i’m mad about is that you can divide by infinity and get zero, but you can’t divide by 0 and get infinity. make up your minds maths people
Oh you totally can (as long as you’re working with implied limits, which you have to if infinity is in the mix), you just have to specify if it’s a positive or negative zero.