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Re: Image comments for ive seen many examples of fallacies but how is this one a fallacy?
Posted by: mkcerusky
Date: 13/04/2006 03:07PM
The point with division by zero is that division is the inverse of multiplication, when you multiply something by zero you always get zero, and you never get a number different from zero. Th function of multiplying by zero is nor injective neither injective, so it cannot be inverted.
In other words if n*0 = 0, and you try to divide 0 by 0 you cannot say what what was the value of n. Moreover, no number M different from zero can be the result of an operation n*0=M thus, given M you can't find out what was n.
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