Well, you can cheat it a little if you were making a program to handle this. Make your own function that makes everything with 0 in the numerator or the denominator if you wish = 0. I would just look at the numerator though and automatically make it = 0. Yeah, math dorks will tell you it's undefined when the denominator is 0, but in the real world we know it should mean 0.
You reminded me of all those equations I used to see in the math lab's bathroom about how 1 != 1 using some bad algebra or taking a different result possibility of a square root on each side.
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using my trusty windows calculator I get "Result of function is undefined" :-).
The answer is 1 right!?
it's undefined
Well, you can cheat it a little if you were making a program to handle this. Make your own function that makes everything with 0 in the numerator or the denominator if you wish = 0. I would just look at the numerator though and automatically make it = 0. Yeah, math dorks will tell you it's undefined when the denominator is 0, but in the real world we know it should mean 0.
You reminded me of all those equations I used to see in the math lab's bathroom about how 1 != 1 using some bad algebra or taking a different result possibility of a square root on each side.
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