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Leroy Riggs · Post by **Leroy Riggs** » 31 Oct 2007 11:07 am

I can't believe that there are 6,000 views looking for nothing.

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 31 Oct 2007 11:32 am

Keyboard players might think there is nothing between the notes. But steel guitar proves otherwise.

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 31 Oct 2007 2:25 pm

David Doggett wrote:Keyboard players might think there is nothing between the notes. But steel guitar proves otherwise.

So, we're into microtonal humour, now?

Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 31 Oct 2007 4:54 pm

+x- =

Jennings Ward · Post by **Jennings Ward** » 31 Oct 2007 5:48 pm

HOW DO YOU CATALOG IT AND STORE IT????
JW

Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 31 Oct 2007 5:56 pm

Jennings Ward wrote:HOW DO YOU CATALOG IT AND STORE IT????
JW

Under \&`

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 31 Oct 2007 6:15 pm

An empty container labeled 'Nothing Inside'.

Donna Dodd · Post by **Donna Dodd** » 31 Oct 2007 6:52 pm

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Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 1 Nov 2007 6:23 am

Archie Nicol · Post by **Archie Nicol** » 1 Nov 2007 4:50 pm

I Googled `Nothing`.
There are 418,000,000 entries. This is going to challenge the ZB thread.

Arch.

Farris Currie · Post by **Farris Currie** » 1 Nov 2007 5:26 pm

Well,guess it my turn now!!!!!!!!!

The girl said her mama said she could go,BUT

SHE WAS TO DO NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DANG IT
farris

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 1 Nov 2007 10:51 pm

You ain't gonna stop the "Nothing" until you kill the Gmork (werewolf thingy)...

THERE IT IS - SHOOT IT!

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 2 Nov 2007 6:48 am

I'm ready for it...

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 2 Nov 2007 8:27 am

Nothing succeeds like excess!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 2 Nov 2007 10:47 am

Ray Minich wrote:Something divided by nothing is infinite...

Actually, that's not true. Something divided by nothing is impossible. It's an expression of mathematical semantics. If you look at a fraction like 8/4 what it's saying is the number of instances of 4 there are in 8, which, of course, is 2. The fraction 8/0 is saying the number of instances of 0 there are in 8, which is an impossible question, since no matter how many 0's you have you will never get to anything more that 0.

Mathematicians have used any number (except zero) divided by 0 as infinite, but it has no meaning. As the denominator of a fraction gets bigger the value of the fraction increases, so the logic is that if it gets down to zero the fraction will have value of infinity. But in reality it never reaches 0, so the fraction never reaches infinity.

I realize you know all this.

It's just that I majored in Mathematical Logic, which is a subject in between Mathematics, Philosophy and Semantics.

This science looks at the meaning behind mathematical expressions, not just the Algebra. You can't divide by zero because it has no meaning. If it were otherwise, you could prove any number is equal to any other number by the use of Algebra...

Check this out....

For this exercise, let x = 1.

It goes without saying, then, that in this particular example...

x2 - x = x2 - 1 (I hope this reads as x squared on your monitor)

Factorise both sides...

(x+1)(x-1) = x(x-1)

Divide both sides by (x-1)

x + 1 = x

Deduct x from both sides

1 = 0

If 1 = 0 then by multiplying and/or adding various numbers to each side of the equation you can prove that any number is any number.

The fallacy is in the line that divides both sides by (x-1). Looking at what the previous line reads, what it actually says is that (x+1) multiplied by zero is the same as x multiplied by zero, which is why all mathematicians (including you and most of the people reading this) know that before dividing both sides of an equation by anything you have to add the proviso "unless that divisor is zero."

That's why you can't divide any number by zero. Something divided by zero is NOT infinite, it's impossible.

R. D. Miller · Post by **R. D. Miller** » 5 Nov 2007 8:50 am

If 1/1=1 and 2/2=1 and 3/3=1, then 0/0=1 ?
Don't you just love the logic of nothing

Dan Haas · Post by **Dan Haas** » 5 Nov 2007 12:13 pm

But the limit as x approaches 0 in the following is infinite.
lim 1/x as x approaches 0.

$:\$
Just a little nothing goes along way...............

Farris Currie · Post by **Farris Currie** » 5 Nov 2007 12:56 pm

Got me a new job,

man said he pay me what i was worth,

at the end of week i got NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 5 Nov 2007 6:54 pm

Dan Haas wrote:But the limit as x approaches 0 in the following is infinite.
lim 1/x as x approaches 0.

$:\$
Just a little nothing goes along way...............

Yes, as the denominator approaches zero the expression approaches infinity, but it never quite gets there. The expression x/0 is what you get when you actually do get there, but you can't ever get there, so the expression is impossible.

Bo Legg · Post by **Bo Legg** » 6 Nov 2007 10:21 am

0=while traveling at the speed of light turn off all the lights. 0=MC<sup>2</sup>-MC<sup>2</sup>.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 6 Nov 2007 2:27 pm

I hated "Limits"...
"As the magnitude of delta t approaches an infinitesmally small value..."
IT'S APPROACHING NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I could get ahold of that fella Newton I'd give him a piece of my mind! (probably an infinitesmally small piece at that).

BTW: isn't 0/0 undefined?

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 6 Nov 2007 3:28 pm

Empty set.

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Post by **b0b** » 6 Nov 2007 3:30 pm

Ray Minich wrote:BTW: isn't 0/0 undefined?

By definition!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 6 Nov 2007 6:06 pm

b0b wrote:
Ray Minich wrote:BTW: isn't 0/0 undefined?
By definition!

The expression 0/0 makes the statement, "You have nothing, and you're not going to divide it by anything." In other words, "So what ? Thanks for sharing !" The expression doesn't ask any question. It's an expression which by its nature is saying "this has no value, not even nought." In mathematical parlance, 0/0 is described as INDETERMINANT. You cannot do any arithmetic with it. You can't multiply it by anything, divide it by anything, add or subtract anything from it. 0/0 doesn't exist.

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