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Re:What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0? by kouh on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:15PM (#20005344)
There is something inextricably human about this sort of anecdote though, like modern reenactments of the drowning of Hippasus by the Pythagoreans after bringing up irrational numbers.
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Re:What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0? by edoo on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:19PM (#20006119)
He showed that the square root of 2 was an irrational.
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