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Re: Help with confirmation on a small bit of assembly?
- Subject: Re: Help with confirmation on a small bit of assembly?
- From: "Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-xj-this>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:43:52 GMT
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To: Tristan Mumford
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:20:09 +1100, "Tristan Mumford"
<xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote:
>Jeff Blakeney wrote:
>
>> The problem with division by zero is that anything divided by zero is
>> undefined.
>
>It depends on the mathematical discipline. Unfortunately we used it an awful
>lot. What got me was 0 / 0 = the set of all numbers. Sorry. I can't
>remember the mathematical symbols. I despised calculus and linear algebra.
>There were some interesting bits though.
I always had math grades in the 90% range. Not that I'm a math nut or
anything, I've just been quite good at it.
Another math thing I always found bizarre was imaginary numbers. Take
a line of real numbers:
_______________________________________
-infinity 0 +infinity
Imaginary numbers are above or below that line. Lots of fun. :-)
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