Eugene McDonnell wrote an excellent paper about 0%0:

http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/0div0a.htm

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> The statement there, "Only one of these explanations is valid" is both
> unsupported and arguably false:
>
>    0 = 0 * 0
>    0 = 0 * 1
>
> This leads into some fairly deep issues in mathematics. It also has to
> do with the distinction between relations and functions with function
> domains with inverse functions, and with concepts of equality.
>
> Still, in functional contexts, this is also a real problem and it's
> entirely reasonable for a programming language or mathematical text to
> standardize on a single result.
>
> That said, this subject easily turns into a heated discussion and is
> probably better suited for the chat forum than for the programming
> forum.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Erling Hellenäs
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all !
> >
> > The question is what should be the result of 0%0 ?
> >    0%0
> > 0
> > https://brilliant.org/wiki/what-is-0-0/
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Erling Hellenäs
> >
> >
> > On 2018-01-15 03:25, Henry Rich wrote:
> >>
> >> Just looking into the constants page
> >> [http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Constants]. In the
> 'infinity'
> >> section Martin Kreuzer stuck in a clipping from Euler, 1802, blithely
> >> explaining why 1%0 = infinity.  Oh, those roaring 1800's.
> >>
> >> Henry Rich
> >>
> >> On 1/14/2018 7:59 PM, More Rice wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thank you Henry.
> >>>
> >>> Your new table alone can replace the entire dcons.htm page I’ve been
> >>> struggling with.
> >>>
> >>> I also missed the important fact that, unlike other languages, the
> >>> specification of the base (left of b) does not change/restrict the
> range of
> >>> valid digits (in the right of b) -- 0-9 and a-z are always "valid
> digits”
> >>> for any base.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks to your detail explanation!
> >>>
> >>> Maurice
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Jan 14, 2018, at 4:32 PM, Martin Kreuzer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Henry -
> >>>> Only following developments from a distance, as I have been ill.
> >>>> Want to let you know that I appreciate your help ...
> >>>> -M
> >>>>
> >>>> At 2018-01-14 19:34, you wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> The page http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Constants
> >>>>> <http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Constants> , though
> incomplete,
> >>>>> has much good to say about constants. I just now added a section
> >>>>> The_Hierarchy_of_Letters with some details.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Henry Rich
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 1/14/2018 1:19 PM, More Rice wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi, a newbie question
> >>>>>> I’vee been trying to test my understanding of the following page
> by
> >>>>>> combining them in different ways.
> >>>>>>         http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dcons.htm
> >>>>>> <http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dcons.htm>
> >>>>>> It went well except when I try mixing with non-decimal numbers.
> Like:
> >>>>>>      NB. Tried to do 10*1p0, but p is higher than b in hierarchy;
> >>>>>> won’t work.
> >>>>>>      NB. But it still have an answer?
> >>>>>>     16bap0
> >>>>>> 2960
> >>>>>> So, questions are:
> >>>>>> 1. how does it get the value of 2960?
> >>>>>> 2. Is there a tool to help understand construct like this? (similar
> to
> >>>>>> dissect, or ;: for example)
> >>>>>> thank you.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Maurice
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