mattchewy
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| 14 Jul 2011 08:56 PM |
A) 0 B) 1 C) Infinity D) Undefined E) All of the above
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xSIXx
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:08 PM |
| How many times does zero go into zero? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... |
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blocco
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:11 PM |
reported for reporting hax
(I choose D) |
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xSIXx
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:11 PM |
http://www.roblox.com/My/Groups.aspx?gid=339086
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Varp
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:14 PM |
Question 2: What is the significance of your answer to question 1? What is your proof? Answer below. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ |
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xSIXx
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:14 PM |
@Varp
I like tacos. Proof, look it up in the taco reference manual. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ |
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blocco
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:16 PM |
Q2)
My answer is not significant, as it is not large. My proof complies with the fact that there are multiple ways to yield distinct answers to 0/0, such as lim x -> 0 = 0 in 0/x=0 and lim x -> 0 = inf. in x/0 = inf. Or something |
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HatHelper
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:17 PM |
| C or D depending on how you look at it or want to prove it. |
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mattchewy
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:18 PM |
| I pick A because when you think about the logic, how many times can you take nothing away from nothing. Since there is nothing to take away, it results in nothing. Paradox? |
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xSIXx
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:19 PM |
@mattchewy
You can take away anything. lol.
9001 * 0 = 0 will be correct. 43925823094i * 0 = 0 will be correct.
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mattchewy
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HatHelper
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:22 PM |
mattchewy but if it was that difficult, y cant a calculator calculate it? it must b more difficult.
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mattchewy
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:28 PM |
| It is because calculators are my slaves. |
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Varp
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:28 PM |
"I pick A because when you think about the logic, how many times can you take nothing away from nothing. Since there is nothing to take away, it results in nothing. Paradox?"
In answer to your question, no, that is not a paradox. That is 0 - 0. Which is quite definitely 0. Really, if you are presented with 0/0 with no context, I would say that, since a*0 = 0, 0/0 is indefinite. However, there is almost always a context, and that gives it meaning. There is rarely a need to evaluate it.
For example, say you are doing a common task such as finding the intersection between two lines, a and b. If you have both in standard form: ax + b = cx + d you can easily rearrange to: ax + b - d = cx b - d = (c - a)x (b - d)/(c - a) = x Here, the context gives the fraction 0/0 meaning, because, in reality, you should almost certainly interpret the answer differently. Here, the answer of 0/0 = x means that the two lines are identical (Note: This means they intersect at all x, in answer to the original question), and if you're writing a program, you could not extract any meaningful data from the answer of 0/0, so you would have to take action based on the fact that they are identical. |
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Avolition
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| 14 Jul 2011 09:40 PM |
DIRECTLY FROM MY UBUNTU LINUX CALCULATOR:
"Division by zero is undefined"
So I say D, because the calculator is always correct. [/nationalism] |
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| 15 Jul 2011 01:35 AM |
I believe the correct answer is D. It is undefined because division is simply multiplication of the numerator by the reciprocal of the denominator, so, since 0/1 is undefined: 0/0 0 * 1 * (undefined—0 has no reciprocal) |
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