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1 Divided by zero
should 1 divided by zero=infinity? because nothingness can fit into somethingness an infinit number of times correct?
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Jan 23rd, 2010 12:03 AM
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1 divided by 0 is undefined.
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The answer depends on the sort of math your doing. In your everyday experience it's simply undefined, if you ever go into higher mathematics there are a ways of defining what the answer is but these involve things like taking a number and psuedodividing it by its psuedoinverse.
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
The answer depends on the sort of math your doing. In your everyday experience it's simply undefined, if you ever go into higher mathematics there are a ways of defining what the answer is but these involve things like taking a number and psuedodividing it by its psuedoinverse.
yes, so by doing that you get infinity?
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
The answer depends on the sort of math your doing. In your everyday experience it's simply undefined, if you ever go into higher mathematics there are a ways of defining what the answer is but these involve things like taking a number and psuedodividing it by its psuedoinverse.
You can define it, but only if it's attached to a function of some sort... just a straight out 1/0 is always undefined.
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Jan 23rd, 2010 12:17 AM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
yes, so by doing that you get infinity?
No, you typically get some mundane number like 3/4 or 0 if you define it using calculus. It depends on what function it's part of.
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Jan 23rd, 2010 12:20 AM
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im assuming a(1) reality has infinit space,
so basically "1" can contain infinity
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Jan 23rd, 2010 12:22 AM
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
yes, so by doing that you get infinity?
No, the answers vary. In linear algebra the answer happens to be zero.
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That's probably the closest you'll get to anything supporting your point. However, to be clear about this, that is NOT the same thing as 1/0=infinity.
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Jan 23rd, 2010 12:31 AM
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Re: 1 Divided by zero
quote: (post ) Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
because nothingness can fit into somethingness
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Jan 23rd, 2010 12:45 AM
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Re: Re: 1 Divided by zero
quote: (post ) Originally posted by shiv
Explain
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Jan 23rd, 2010 12:53 AM
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How is it you have taken such a supposedly advanced astronomy class, but haven't taken calculus?
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by King Kandy
How is it you have taken such a supposedly advanced astronomy class, but haven't taken calculus?
i took it and im telling you im Lucky i some how passed.....
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Then why are you asking this question, half the stuff you do in derivative based calculus is figuring out how to compute divide by zero problems.
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Re: Re: Re: 1 Divided by zero
quote: (post ) Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
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Jan 23rd, 2010 02:28 AM
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You can't divide by zero,there is no way.
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quote: (post ) Originally posted by The Butcher
You can't divide by zero,there is no way.
you missed the whole point
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The useless cases some people make are ridiculous. Essentially it's our verbiage enabling philosophical discussion.
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If
x/0 = ∞
then
x/∞ = 0
and then 0*∞=x
But x is any number.
So what the ****?
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That's because both 1/0 and 0*∞ are undefined values, as explained. So no, nothing in that equation works.
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