my cock is so hard right now in the name of nullity.

wow

Dividing by zero? I'm trying to translate that concept into language but it makes absolutely no sense. Wow. Nullity. Interesting... No, I'm not being sarcastic, I'm absolutely baffled. Division by zero ???

EDIT: I think it's a little ironic that the thread starters handle is _Nut_

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Cool! I wouldn't take it as a fact though until the mathematic community agrees on it

But I don't think this is harder to imagine than imaginary numbers that makes no sense either (no pun intended )!

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Originally posted by St_Andrew Cool! I wouldn't take it as a fact though until the mathematic community agrees on it

I suppose we'll find out if it's indeed valid (via proof) pretty soon.

EDIT: That'll be an interesting proof to look at btw.

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Originally posted by St_Andrew But I don't think this is harder to imagine than imaginary numbers that makes no sense either (no pun intended )!

Haha. True . Quantification is weird

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did this guy just come up with a name for something thats been around since nullity?

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Don't divide by zero!!!!

EVER!!!!!

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OH SHI-

Here's more information on all this Nullity thing, by the way:

'Nullity is a number, and that makes a difference' (features an interview with Dr James Anderson)
1200-year-old problem 'easy'
Wikipedia on "Division by Zero"
Wikipedia on "NaN" (Not a Number)
Wikipedia on "Nullity", where nullity is defined as being "a unique member of the set of transreal numbers, a non-established mathematical concept".
Dr. Anderson's Website, where you can read the papers about it, with proofs and whatnot.

Personally, I was used to the idea that a division by zero would cause the end of the world, but, yeah, this sounds more interesting... the apocalypse can wait

Amazing!

So simple and obvious, yet no one had thought of it.

I'm a software developer, so I can already see all the problems that this is going to solve!

Personally, I think that our systems of mathematics could use a few more addendums like this; maybe an internalized logic structure would be useful also.

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Originally posted by DJ Shibby Amazing! So simple and obvious, yet no one had thought of it. I'm a software developer, so I can already see all the problems that this is going to solve! Personally, I think that our systems of mathematics could use a few more addendums like this; maybe an internalized logic structure would be useful also.

Like's ma mudder oh-ways sed...." ah tink yuse cudd reely u's a internalized logic structure" bo-a!

Edit: Besides, all be it interesting and all, seems it's not anything that new. There's been chatter and the like in the 'Pure' math community for ages.(granted, that crowd probably should have done a lot more or a lot less acid. But...there's really no way of telling.....hmmm) In our linear thinking, the nulity theory would have to imply that infinity in either direction is an even #.

Hey! Anybody like Trance or know where I can find the brown tone?

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Originally posted by Nostrum Like's ma mudder oh-ways sed...." ah tink yuse cudd reely u's a internalized logic structure" bo-a! Edit: Besides, all be it interesting and all, seems it's not anything that new. There's been chatter and the like in the 'Pure' math community for ages.(granted, that crowd probably should have done a lot more or a lot less acid. But...there's really no way of telling.....hmmm) In our linear thinking, the nulity theory would have to imply that infinity in either direction is an even #. Hey! Anybody like Trance or know where I can find the brown tone?

Well, we're building on a system that already has the foundations laid.

We could devise a way, a la rome, to remove '0' from our thought process, since nothing can never really exist as a number.