willbeurdaddy -> RE: Back from Iraq for a short time, ready to answer your questions if you have any... (7/10/2010 4:49:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: SL4V3M4YB3 Is that a bull shit in maths? You can't say infinity multiplied by zero = zero because it might or it might not. "Infinity, not being part of the natural, rational, real or complex numbers, does not come with the innate possibility to multiply it by anything in those sets. We can define a consistent notion of arithmetic on the extended numbers (gotten by adding in a symbol for infinity) in many cases. To be consistent with these definitions then we cannot define the multiplication 0*infinity. It is no big deal, and nothing to do with 'zero amounts of anything'. You must not think of the mathematical notion of infinity as being the same as your 'really big number, bigger than you can imagine' unmathematical notion. " Buh bye
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