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Re:1/0 = 0 by emileokada on Friday August 10, 2018 @05:11PM (#17736769)
> However, it is definitely possible to define some operation such that 1 `op` 0 := 0, just not the inverse operation of multiplication.

If you read the post this is actually exactly what the OP is saying.

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Re:1/0 = 0 by geoalchimista on Saturday August 11, 2018 @01:08AM (#17738451)
Sure, the author spent a long blog essay and didn't get the point across as clearly as many of the comments here on HN. If this were to be a research paper it would likely get rejected without a review. Not to mention the whole point of the idea is trivial. Why reinvent a wheel that traps everyone into the author's whimsical thinking when there is a standard way of doing this thing (1 / 0 => raise ZeroDivisionError)?

I, for one, will respectfully decline to use any programming language that defines 1/0 to be 0.

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