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Re:1/0 = 0 by starmole on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:14PM (#17738077)
Integers are perfectly fine in math. But they are not a field. Integers modulo something are also well understood in math - but again not a field.
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Re:1/0 = 0 by spacehome on Saturday August 11, 2018 @01:05AM (#17738445)
Integers modulo any prime are a field.
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Re:1/0 = 0 by ummonk on Saturday August 11, 2018 @02:17AM (#17738618)
Powers of 2 are not a prime though, unless the power is 1 (i.e. we are dealing with single-bit integers).
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