• CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Bit stupid we’re still calling video gaming having “no life” when it’s substantially more fulfilling than pretending to have a life you don’t for fake internet points from fake internet friends on fake internet communities. I’ve met plenty of interesting people and developed lasting relationships gaming. And it’s stimulating mentally depending on the genre. Meanwhile, I go out to social settings and see half the people sitting alone, posing with food and drinks and doing nothing but staring at their phones. Some life.

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    14 hours ago

    0/0 is undefined because everything would be a valid result. 0/0 is basically finding solutions for 0*x=0 and everything you put into x would satisfy the equation.

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      4 hours ago

      Thank you! I’ve always wondered what the answer would be and why. 0 divided by a number is 0. A number divided by itself is 1. A number divided by 0 is undefined. I never knew which one took precedence and why

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      6 hours ago

      This doesn’t clearly identify a problem IMO. Division by a number is defined as multiplication by the multiplicative inverse, and 0 has no multiplicative inverse because 0x = 1 has no solutions.

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    12 hours ago

    Yea, I was waiting for the math folk to come out of the woodworks and start protesting, and writing massive copypastas on why 0/0 is something that breaks brains, destroys careers and ruins marriages.

  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 hours ago

    Okay, so I had a personal project for a long time that addressed the potential for an algebra that allowed for the multipicitive inverse of the additive identity.

    In the context of the resulting non-associative algebra, 0/0=1, rather than 0.

    For anyone wondering, the foundation goes as such: Ω0=1, Ωx=ΩΩ=Ω, x+Ω=Ω, Ω-Ω=Ω+Ω=0.

    A fun consequence of this is the exponential function exp(x)=Σ((x^n)/n!) diverges at exp(Ω). Specifically you can reduce it to Σ(Ω), which when you try to evaluate it, you find that it evaluates to either 0 or Ω. This is particularly fitting, because e^x has a divergent limit at infinity. Specially, it approaches infinity when going towards the positive end and it approaches 0 when approaching the negative.

    There’s more cool things you can do with that, but I’ll leave it there for now.

  • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    As if a life could sprout from nothing once the work ends.

    Some people pour their lives into work/school to try to make a new, better life grow out. It almost worked there for a bit. Then everything was killed in 2018 and now nothing can grow back in spite of all my efforts.

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    13 hours ago

    Is could be argued that 0/0=1
    since x/x=1
    Subbing in x=0 gives the above.

    Complicating things is x/0=infinity
    Subbing in x=0 gives a contradictory answer.