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dccsillag | 1 year ago

I find it odd that all of the mathematicians cited at the end are actually pretty much CS people, working on proof assistants. Kinda renders that section pointless, IMO (though the comment by Isabelle's author was interesting).

IMO, whether something like this makes sense is a separate matter. Personally I always just think of division in terms of multiplicative inverses, so I don't see how defining division by zero helps other than perhaps making implementation easier in a proof assistant. But I've seen people say that there are some cases where having a/0 = 0 works out nicely. I'm curious to know what these cases are, though.

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