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Thursday, December 07, 2006

1200-year-old problem 'easy'

Computers simply cannot divide by zero. Try it on your calculator and you'll get an error message.

But Dr Anderson has come up with a theory that proposes a new number - 'nullity' - which sits outside the conventional number line (stretching from negative infinity, through zero, to positive infinity).


Something tells me that this is crap :)

This guy explains it using algerbra.

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