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Originally Posted by JVN
Back when I was 229 Team Leader, I got a random email from some mathematician out to prove that dividing something by zero actually equaled zero.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/zerobyzero/
It's pretty weird.
It was definitely strange to get an email from him, apparently he just searched the net randomly for people to hear his theory, and our team name ("Division by Zero") led him to me. |
Haha that site makes me laugh...
Some of the theories on there are cool...but most of them are just kind of strange. He really likes the number zero...
His samples really don't add up to me, though.
Ex:
(1/2) / (0/2) = (1/2) * (2/0) = 0
You can't divide something into portions of zero! I know he's using the basis of cross multiplication but yeah...it's still wrong.
Back to the topic at hand, the last proposed proof (the e^x one) has officially blown my mind. I think it's time for a cookie.