[Wolves] Yahoo! upgrade

Andy Wootton andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk
Thu May 26 21:12:38 BST 2005


Stuart Langridge wrote:

>On 5/26/05, Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver at mavit.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
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>>jargon for "as n gets really big, 1/n gets really small".  Really.  It is
>>not true to say 1/infinity = 0.  That just doesn't make any sense.
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>True enough. On the other hand, is it true to say 1/0 = infinity?
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>Aq.
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No. n/0 is always undefined (which I think is a contradiction)

Woo (who was allowed to scraped a pass on his first year analysis retake 
as long as he went away and did physics and computer science where maths 
don't matter)



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