Its probably best to Carry on with the infinity constant discussion On Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 3:26 AM Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> assert math.inf**0 == 1 > assert math.inf**math.inf == math.inf > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 3:13 AM Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for your feedback Rob. >> >> On Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 12:27 AM Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas < >> python-ideas@python.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ >>> Message archived at >>> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/NKE6DETBHE4SCH3DTQREJTYPTDG3KXRA/ >>> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >>> >>
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