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Re: Division by Zero
Posted By: Matthew, on host 194.117.133.166
Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2001, at 12:36:14
In Reply To: Re: Division by Zero posted by wintermute on Tuesday, July 3, 2001, at 08:32:16:

> > I hereby define x/0 to be 0 for all real x.

> Surely it would be more sensible to define x/0 to be infinity for all real cases of x.
>

I wanted to stay in the reals. The reals do not contain infinity. With my definition, for any real a and b, a/b exists and is real.

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