On 19/09/2011 06:47 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 9/19/2011 1:08, Invisible wrote:
>> On 18/09/2011 08:20 AM, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>>
>>> I asked my 14 year old son.
>>>
>>> His answer was infinite%
>>
>> Division by zero is not defined.
>
> It's not defined over the reals. If you define it to be "infinity" then
> it's defined. :-)

Well, if you define it to be Heth then it's defined... It's not 
necessarily a good idea though.

Fact is, 0 * infinity = 0, so it's not a sensible answer. Unless you 
change the axioms of arithmetic. (And even if you do, division by zero 
leads to logical paradoxes left, right and center...)

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