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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