Division by zero now possible - a new evolution in math?

[episodic]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/...s/2006/12/06/divide_zero_feature.shtml

Witness the birth of the number nullity.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Lies.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Lies.

 

[Exterous]

I can't open the vids at work to see his actual theory but I highly doubt this is mathematically possible

 

[rudder]

does .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 = 0 ?

 

[Calin]

It is somewhat possible - welcome to the world of infinity.
However, the interesting part would be:
What do you get when you divide 1 by 0, then multiply it by 0? 0, 1, 2?
This seems just a new notion for a value that can be plus or minus infinite

 

[sswingle]

Article does a piss poor job at explaining how it actually works.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

New age reasoning = make sh!t up....

 

[George P Burdell]

I stopped reading after this: "Imagine you're landing on an aeroplane and the automatic pilot's working," he suggests. "If it divides by zero and the computer stops working - you're in big trouble. If your heart pacemaker divides by zero, you're dead."

Hogwash!

 

[BillyBatson]

eh i read like 1/3 of the reponses which there seem to be a lot of and everyone is calling him a quack lol

 

[Al Neri]

there's no such thing as "now exists" if it exists now it always existed.

stupid new age hogwash!

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: Exterous
I can't open the vids at work to see his actual theory but I highly doubt this is mathematically possible

His theory is, let's make up a symbol that means 0/0 and that will be our answer!

As per the comments on the article -

"The man is a crank on the level of the "squaring the circle" crowd. The accepted value of 0/0 is undefined for several good reasons that anyone with an understanding of topology or even basic calculus should understand. Replacing 0/0 with a special symbol would actually create more problems than it would fix."

 

[Exterous]

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: Exterous
I can't open the vids at work to see his actual theory but I highly doubt this is mathematically possible

His theory is, let's make up a symbol that means 0/0 and that will be our answer!

As per the comments on the article -

"The man is a crank on the level of the "squaring the circle" crowd. The accepted value of 0/0 is undefined for several good reasons that anyone with an understanding of topology or even basic calculus should understand. Replacing 0/0 with a special symbol would actually create more problems than it would fix."

Thats honestly exactly what I wondered

 

[invidia]

The first thing I noticed on that website is the picture of the children looks like a bunch of kids from one of the Harry Potter movies.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: invidia
The first thing I noticed on that website is the picture of the children looks like a bunch of kids from one of the Harry Potter movies.

Impressionable minds willing to accept what they don't know is a crock of horse sh!t.

 

[SpecialEd]

All their doing is taking the real line and "adding" a point the point infinity. It's basically taking an open interval and closing it up by joining the end points to make a circle.

In the mathimatics community this is a topological concept called the "one point compactification" of the real line and has been around for a long time.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez
there's no such thing as "now exists" if it exists now it always existed.

stupid new age hogwash!

Is that along the lines of "new and improved"??

 

[thirdeye]

haha, I thought this was repost until I saw the thread is back from the dead.

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez
there's no such thing as "now exists" if it exists now it always existed.

stupid new age hogwash!

like that zero business, just hogwash, how can a number be nothing?

 

[misle]

I sent that to a friend's wife, who has a Ph D in math and she said that that was the dumbest thing she ever read.

 

[aleckz]

I like how it is just a zero with an I through it , its the new way to spell oi.

 

[KB]

I can see a whole new world of mathematics based on nullity as people need something to do to pursue their PHDs.

OK since now what is a number divided by nullity equal?

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Lies.

Official and confirmed! :Q

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: rudder
does .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 = 0 ?

No. Though I have a feeling you are misunderstanding the problem like a ton of other people here do. Or maybe you are just screwing with people here

 

[Tom]

this explains the odd chicken mcnugget i got last night.