wfz said:
Shameless said:
wfz said:
Eab, the problem with the "infinity times zero" question is that infinity isn't even a number. Also most of the time you're looking at that, 0 isn't a number either. They're both behaviors.
@Shameless, 1/3 means "one third of". If you take .999999 = 1, then that's fine, since 1/3 of .999999 is .3333333
However if you don't, then 1/3 isn't exactly equal to .3333. It's more like .33333 1/3
=P
EDIT: Shameless, infinity times zero is not zero. Don't criticize people for butchering math and then do it yourself in the same post!
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1/3 means 1 divided by 3 like all fractions.
Zero is always zero, no matter what you choose to multiply it by.
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Zero is always zero, no matter what real number you multiply it by. Infinity is not a number, so that doesn't work.
Infinity is a behavior. Also, 0 can be a behavior as well, so using L'hopital's rule is great when you have infinities and zeroes.
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Fair enough. I guess I'm getting confused when people define 1/0 = infinity when it should be written implicitly as "1/x = y; when x tends to 0, y tends to infinity", I'm getting tired ;).