• Abnorc@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        Almost. 1/x approaches infinity from the positive direction, but it approaches negative infinity from the negative direction. Since they approach different values, you can’t even say the limit of 1/x is infinity. It’s just undefined.

        • affiliate@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          it is possible to rigorously say that 1/0 = ∞. this is commonly occurs in complex analysis when you look at things as being defined on the Riemann sphere instead of the complex plane. thinking of things as taking place on a sphere also helps to avoid the “positive”/“negative” problem: as |x| shrinks, 1 / |x| increases, so you eventually reach the top of the sphere, which is the point at infinity.

  • PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    Typing in 80085 can get your calculator privledges revoked welcome to the new normal

    Wait wtf, is that gnome-calculator? You’d have to do some truly extreme shit to get banned from an open source program.