Re:What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0?
by throwawaymath on Saturday May 25, 2019 @02:15PM
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0/0 is only indeterminate if your axioms allow or require it to be. Strictly speaking you can define 0/0 to mean something, but you will lose a lot of useful properties along the way. The only time 0/0 is not indeterminate is when you're dealing with something exotic and obscure like an algebraic wheel. It's correct to say 0/0 is undefined because in the vast majority of cases where someone doesn't explicitly call out the algebraic setting, they're working with a field.
1/0 is undefined because no value of x satisfies 1/0 = x.
0/0 is indeterminate because any value of x satisfies 0/0 = x.