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Re:1/0 = 0 by ggggtez on Friday August 10, 2018 @04:23PM (#17736476)
Based on the tweet, I don't expect it to be very enlightening. Since programmers write programs to solve real problems, and real problems define 1/0=undefined... then this is only going to mask bugs in those programs.
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Re:1/0 = 0 by mcguire on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:24PM (#17738117)
Technically, some real problems define 1/0 as illegal.

But see renormalization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization?wprov=sfla1

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Re:1/0 = 0 by FlipperBucket on Friday August 10, 2018 @07:19PM (#17737379)
> programmers write programs to solve real problems, and real problems define 1/0=undefined

Saying that is easy and common. Can you come up with a contrived example?

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