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billswift on July 29, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Infinity Is Not a Number - It's a Free Man

All you managed to do is show why division by zero is not allowed. It doesn't show 0 is not a number.

jonsen on July 30, 2009 [–]

0 is a number all right, and division by 0 isn't proving anything. My point is that maybe subtracting ∞ doesn't prove anything either.

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