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Thread: The problem with Zero

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    Senior Member Ouroboros's Avatar
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    ouch... frankly, I gave up on mathematics when they told me that the square root of -1 was "i". Huh? "i"!?!?! What the **** is "i"? Who the **** do you think you are? What the ****!? Mother******!! "i"???! Honestly!...

    Yep, that's about when I gave up on it.

    Actually, in thought, I like to relate "0" to a singularity in cosmological physics...beyond calculation...

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    "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity."

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    Owwww..... Im gonna be out of commision for a while because of that post

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    so from Apocalypse post

    What about 0/0? Suppose we say 0/0 = c where c is some real number. Will it check? 0(c) =0. Certainly it checks. What value should we give c? Why not 1? 0/0=1 since 0(1) = 0. But 52 would work equally well. 0/0 = 52 since 0(52) = 0. Since any number will check, 0/0 lacks a "unique" answer. Again mathematicians ruled out 0/0 as a permissible operation because of this lack of uniqueness.

    we can say that 0/0 is any numbers in the world (since it satisy the that rule)........... so I think the answer of Kezil post is undefined (0/0) because if the answer is all numbers it's better to say undefined.. isn't it make life easier ???
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    wow the IQ level in AO is def going up when we have a physic's teaching mathamatician phD writing in to answer a post

    and now inspired by 11001001 to lower it again with IMHO one of the best simpsons scenes ever
    conversation between Moe & the FBI in the simpsons
    <FBI guy>Did you hold a grudge against montgomary burns?
    <moe>no
    buzz of lie detector - means is lying
    <moe>alright maybe i did but i didn't shoot him
    ding of lie detector - means is truth
    <fbi guy> checks out. Ok sir your free to go
    <moe>good cause i have a hot date tonight
    buzz
    <moe>a date
    buzz
    <moe>dinner with friends
    buzz
    <moe>dinner alone
    buzz
    <moe>watching tv alone
    buzz
    <moe>ALRIGHT!!!! I'm going to sit at home an ogle the ladies in the victoria secret catalogue
    buzz
    <moe>||pause's|| sear's catalogue
    ding
    <moe>now would you unhook this already please! I don't deserve this kind of shabby treatment
    buzz
    have attached the top 10 simpsons quotes (.mp3)

    v_Ln

    edit weird the attachment didn't work?

    /me tries again

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    I was feeling like I was getting over the flu....then I saw this post...dang youse! dang youse to heck!

    Seriously, great post....confusing, but great!
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    I don't understand why everyone finds this confusing (or why it gives everyone a headache), it seems perfectly clear to me

    Then again, I think about things like the equations needed to plot a DNA molecule and what the mathematical equation of the universe is. Maybe I'm just weird. Oh well.
    Preliminary operational tests were inconclusive (the dang thing blew up)

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