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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah, but 0 times infinite is undefined, so who knows what'll happen ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it though? Wouldn't 0 times infinity still be 0?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope, look it up, it's undefined.

You can define things that boil down to 0 x infinity that equal anything you like. It's undefined and is dependent on context. Infinity isn't this one number, it's a concept that encompasses a lot of things, and the way you achieve an infinity matter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't it anything divided by 0 is undefined? Granted, I only have a more or less intermediate level of math, but I was always taught that multiplication by zero is always zero. But then again, zero is weird and can break my brain just as much as infinity does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Indeed, any number multiplied by 0 is zero, but infinity is not a number.

So then it starts to depend on what the 0 actually means, and what the infinity actually means, and depending on the context 0 x infinity can be all kinds of things.