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John_Vella
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The answer is clearly 228, and where if the pi option? <-- Did you see what I did there Mr TimArk?  _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise 
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finlay666
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0/0 depending on your method of calculation will give a different answer depending on what you do
0/0 in computer programming will usually give a NAN (Not a number) exception
0/0 could cause a divide by 0 exception leading to infinity
however as there are 0 0 x infinity = 0
0/0 is technically 1 as any number divided by itself is to the power of 0 which is 1
This is one of the reasons I want to go back to do a course in maths, is things like this interest me, especially now having more of a computer programming knowledge
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cloaked_wolf
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I always thought that 0 x infinite = 1, or at least that's what the maths teacher said, I think.
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Amnesia10
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Hold on where is the pie option on the vote?
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finlay666
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Well maths dictates if you have nothing of something you have nothing the 0 x infinity probably came from some association in 0/0 = 0^0 and y^0 = 1 _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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JJW009
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Infinity is not a number, so rules of arithmetic tend to go wrong. There's a reason calculators just give up when you divide by zero. The following is not a valid argument: If x = y / z then zx = yanything over zero = infinity, therefore, Letting z = 0 gives x = infinityNow let y = "your mum's apple pie"We now have: zx = y gives: 0 x infinity = "your mum's apple pie".Additionally, there are different kinds of infinity. Some are bigger than others. The two most discussed categories are "countable" and "uncountable". _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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l3v1ck
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You might want to check that and get back to us........ even if you don't think 2 is the answer.
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tombolt
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This thread has at last cleared something up for me. I was taught bomdas and was always confused as to why everybody else said bodmas. My teacher said it didn't matter which one you used and google wasn't invented to clarify. Then I forgot I ever cared.
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forquare1
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I recall in maths in my first year of uni, my crazy maths teacher was asked "How much is infinity", she replied "It depends what kind of infinity you're talking about", then went off on a tangent... She did things like that from time to time...
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davrosG5
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Well, her answer was technically correct (which is the best kind of correct) but not terribly helpful.
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John_Vella
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_________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker Sorry I'll behave now. Promise
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jonlumb
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For those interested in the different sizes of infinity, here's an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinality#Infinite_sets
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