Re:Is 0 Odd or Even?
by rms on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @02:13AM
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>I had a similar problem with accepting that 1/inf = 0; to me, there could always be a smaller number
The issue here (the same issue as the .9999=1 debate) is that people intuitively perceive the hyperreal numbers. It is absolutely not wrong to intuitively perceive the hyperreal numbers; it's not like one number system is more correct than others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
The issue here (the same issue as the .9999=1 debate) is that people intuitively perceive the hyperreal numbers. It is absolutely not wrong to intuitively perceive the hyperreal numbers; it's not like one number system is more correct than others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
http://theassayer.org/cgi-bin/asbook.cgi?book=770 is a textbook of the calculus constructed rigorously using infinitesimals.