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Graham's Number.

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Sirrus:

Yeah, but what use is that? Like WhatevaGuy said, and this is true, Graham's number is the upper bound in a complex mathematical problem. You just made a grotesquely large number.

Niliscro:

Well, I'm off to count all of the atoms in our universe.
See you in eternity, guys.

Deep2:


--- Quote from: Inv3rted on October 09, 2009, 11:40:39 AM ---I think infinity / 0 should be something other than undefined.

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∞/0^0=1


EDIT:stuff I just got a letter from Dr Math about this question.


--- Quote from: Dr Math ---Hi,

Thanks for writing to Dr. Math.

There's not much of a controversy.  Division by zero is not defined.
Period.

So, it's not even correct to say that 1/0 = undefined.

"Undefined" is not some special math term.  It's the English word
literally meaning something that has no definition.

So, we have no definition for the result of a division by zero. That's
it.

Further, infinity is NOT a number.  So, it cannot be the case that the
result of any arithmetic operation is infinity.  It's rather like 1+1
= happy.  Happy is not a number, so this statement makes no sense.

So, (1/0)^0 has no defined value, because 1/0 has no defined value.

- Doctor Roy, The Math Forum
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Mah theory has bee proven wrong. :c

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