On 11/10/2020 22:47, Wes Turner wrote:
Indeed, perhaps virtual particles can never divide by zero and thus
the observed laws of thermodynamic systems are preserved.
Would you please be so kind as to respond in the main thread so that
this is one consecutive thread?
No, 2 times something is greater than something. Something over
something is 1.
If we change the division axiom to be piecewise with an exception
only for infinity, we could claim that any problem involving
division of a symbol is unsolvable because the symbol could be
infinity.
This is incorrect:
x / 2 is unsolvable because x could be infinity
x / 2 > x / 3 (where x > 0; Z+) is indeterminate because if x is
infinity, then they are equal.
Which of these are you arguing should fail if Python changes to
returning [+/-]inf instead of raising ZeroDivisionError?
assert 1 / 0 != 2 / 0
assert 2*inf > inf
Both of them (assuming that they don't raise an exception).
assert inf / inf == 1
That should raise an exception; inf/inf is meaningless (just as division
by zero is meaningless with finite numbers).
No offence Wes, but you are clearly not familiar with the subject of
transfinite numbers as discovered by Cantor. I earnestly suggest you
learn something about it before making statements which are - again, no
offence intended, but frankly - nonsense. Transfinite numbers do not
obey the same rules as finite numbers. Which can be counter-intuitive
and take some getting used to, but ... that's the way it is.
Best wishes
Rob Cliffe
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