On 3/12/2009 1:36:56 AM, rijackson wrote:
>On 3/11/2009 6:55:39 PM, jmG wrote:
>>> Division by zero is erroneous even if the numerator is also zero (that's correct isn't it?).< [Philip asked the question]
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>>0/0 = 0 a convention as well as a true value <<.
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>Division by zero can never result in a
>valid answer. But we ave had this
>discussion before.
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>Richard
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OK Richard,
You may not like my agreement with Mathcad and the Pentium conventions, let those more mathematicians word the 0/0, demonstrate and what it means . You like the indeterminate, me too. What's important is how it behaves in work sheets.
0/0 = 0 makes Mathcad work because Pentium is so designed understanding that Mathcad is not an AU [Arithmetic Unit] and performs no such a thing as 0/0 by itself.
0/0 is not erroneous, only indeterminate
jmG