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Re: The Ultimate Question

Posted By: Matthew, on host 138.38.32.88
Date: Saturday, November 3, 2001, at 14:39:30
In Reply To: The Ultimate Question posted by Silon on Tuesday, October 30, 2001, at 19:37:03:

> 2) What is zero divided by zero?

Undefined.

An example of zero divided by zero crops up in Calculus, in the field of differentiation. You have a/b with a and b tending to 0. The answer you get in the limit depends on the function you were differentiating.

Matthew

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