Which fool is too lazy to have made it say a word one letter longer?

~B~

Mac calculator fails.

~U_K~

 

Which fool is too lazy to have made it say a word one letter longer?

 

~B~

That reminds me of an awesome brickfilm by Nathan Wells.

Tor

They should program it to explode.

-=< >=-

How strange. When I do it it just says "Division By Zero"

-Laka

Correction: Zero goes into fifty-eight infinity times. And it's pretty obvious why-- no matter how many zeroes you add up, they'll never add up to fifty-eight, so dividing fifty-eight into groups of zero you get an infinite number of groups. Dividing any number by zero should give you this result, even zero itself.

It's just one of those weird math things, like how .999 repeated is equal to 1. When you deal with any sort of infinity, be it an infinite number of decimal digits or an infinite number of zeroes, things tend to get muddled up beyond comprehension.

I have a really awesome book called Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea that is basically all about this sort of stuff. It's pretty awesome, and I recommend it to anyone who can get their hands on it.

lol.

-Z-

Windows just says "cannot divide by zero". At least macs kinda sorta divided by it. =/

But both still need an explosion animation for this, yeah.

Correction: Zero goes into fifty-eight infinity times. And it's pretty obvious why-- no matter how many zeroes you add up, they'll never add up to fifty-eight, so dividing fifty-eight into groups of zero you get an infinite number of groups. Dividing any number by zero should give you this result, even zero itself.

 

It's just one of those weird math things, like how .999 repeated is equal to 1. When you deal with any sort of infinity, be it an infinite number of decimal digits or an infinite number of zeroes, things tend to get muddled up beyond comprehension.

 

I have a really awesome book called Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea that is basically all about this sort of stuff. It's pretty awesome, and I recommend it to anyone who can get their hands on it.

They should program it to explode.

 

-=< >=-

This one.

It's just one of those weird math things, like how .999 repeated is equal to 1.

ARGH.

 

.999 repeating is NOT equal to one. It is infantessimally less than one. While in real life, it's close enough, in mathmatical terms, only one equals one.

 

Plus, the way you stated it made it sound like 999 thousandths equaled one.

Actually, there's a mathematical proof that shows it's equal to one. I used to think it was infinitesimally less as well, but we went over that proof in my Trigonometry course (I think that was the class in which we went over it) and it made a lot of sense. See here for a number of proofs.

And sorry if it sounded misleading, but I didn't know any notations for recording repeated decimals in a post at the time I made that post.

Actually Aanchir, I'm pretty sure zero divided by zero equals one.

Actually Aanchir, I'm pretty sure zero divided by zero equals one.

Really? Why so?

Because zero goes into zero once.

Link that backs me up.