Re: Calculus

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> schaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 04/20/01 12:37PM >>>
> Why is it that one cannot divide by zero ? Seems like special
> pleading.

well, whats-it-mean( divide-by-zero )? add that meaning to the laws,
and it'd be legal.


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CB: For someone who is starting out in arithmetic, they can add zero, subtract 
zero,
multiply by zero, but not divide by zero.  I guess in that way zero is sort of 
a big
hole from the beginning. But aren't holes paradoxes ? I understood someone to be
saying paradoxes aren't really very significant in mathematics and its 
development.




here is something almost as difficult:

  whats-it-mean( divide-something-by-a-half )?


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CB: Divide something in half, two equal parts ??

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well, dividing by a number means (is defined as) multiplying by its
reciprocal, and what is a reciprocal?

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