Re: [NTLK] Newton Calc bug?

From: Edmund Blackadder (edmund_at_helmug.gr)
Date: Fri Aug 27 2004 - 12:07:56 PDT


On 27 Aug 2004, at 19:48, Martin Joseph wrote:
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> Not so, the answer to any number divided by 0 is infinity.

Mmm not really. it does not define. Only in limis for example when
x-->0 (but NOT equal to zero) it is infinity
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>> Also the square root of -1 does not exist. It is not a real number.
>
> It does exist it's just an irrational number.

I said it in my P.S. (that it is equal to the imaginary number i)

My 2 eurocents :-)

Kostas

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