I typed up a very angry paragraph about how you can’t divide by infinity either because infinity is a function within the context of algebraic math, then I realized I was wrong, which made me step back and realize how fucky it is that the only number that is weirder than 0 isn’t in fact a number
Oh you totally can (as long as you’re working with implied limits, which you have to if infinity is in the mix), you just have to specify if it’s a positive or negative zero.
Yeah, 1 is a very strange number, but have you heard of 0?
what i’m mad about is that you can divide by infinity and get zero, but you can’t divide by 0 and get infinity. make up your minds maths people
I typed up a very angry paragraph about how you can’t divide by infinity either because infinity is a function within the context of algebraic math, then I realized I was wrong, which made me step back and realize how fucky it is that the only number that is weirder than 0 isn’t in fact a number
Oh you totally can (as long as you’re working with implied limits, which you have to if infinity is in the mix), you just have to specify if it’s a positive or negative zero.
positive or negative nothing 💀 right
i mean, implicitly it’s just whether you’re approaching zero from positive or negative direction, since we’re working with limits.
Like you can shave down a stick however much you want, you can never reach 0 stick by doing so.