They didn't kick our asses! They just...set the...White House...on fire....ok fine, kicked our asses.

I mean, it's gonna take me awhile to finish drawing this infinitely long line, but so far, it is touching the x access at every single point within the the set of real numbers.

Hmm, I've got Khan Academy agreeing with me too: https://www.khanacademy.org/ma... on his board at 3:16. But, what does he know, he's only one of the most highly regarded sources for learning mathematics online...I'm sure it was just a slip-up that no one seems to have successfully countered in his comments...

um....source? I got bored confirming, but if I'm reading you correctly, at least Wikipedia disagrees with you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

;) fair enough.

it approaches infinity if you start at one and get closer and closer and closer to 0. N/.00000001 is pretty high.

But it approaches negative infinity if you start at -1 and get closer and closer and closer to 0. N/-.00000000001 is pretty low.

because of this discontinuity...the largest discontinuity possible in fact, the actual value of N/0 cannot be any of these compromises. It has to not exist.

This video does a decent job of explaining the problem: Numberphile: The problem with zero" It tries to address the very question that OP is asking.

Division by zero isn't equal to zero. It isn't equal to positive infinity. It isn't equal to negative infinity. the value of any number divided by zero (including 0) is that it does not exist. After all, doesn't any number divided by itself equal to one? So shouldn't 0/0 = 1? No, because you can't divide by zero. The proper way for a computer to respond to an attempt to divide by zero is, "I have absolutely no idea what's going on here. I speak math, and you just asked me to do something that is outside of the language of math. I am going to either crash so I don't do anything stupid, return a reserved value that explicitly indicates that the answer does not exist, or jump out a level, throwing a runtime exception (as appropriate for the given language), and let YOU tell me what to do now. It has to be this way because there is never a single answer that always holds true about what a computer should do when encountering this.

This should be hammered into you first in precalc, and again in any first-semester intro to computer science course, and again in discrete structures, and again in a computer hardware course. This is the reason for a lot of the hostility for asking this question.

Ooooo, orrrrrrr, how about negative infinity? after all, 1/-.0000000000000000000000000001 is really close to that....

Or wait, how about "Not a Number" because that is the only way to resolve jump-discontinuity.

No, it does not equal infinity.

The Limit as x aproaches 0+ of a/x = infinity.

But the Limit as x approaches 0- of a/x = negative infinity.

because this represents a jump-discontinuity, the value of a/0 is just plain undefined.

This is like week-1 of high school precalc shit. Come on.

No.

Maybe my memory is being selective, but I don't recall Law & Order ever doing something that egregious. Court Drama has overall improved quite a bit (partly thanks to lessons learned from My Cousin Vinny. That's more of a Matlock type sin.

Raising 40m is fine and all, but something tells me I'm not gonna be able to purchase a spool of this stuff in 2016 like the article boasts. That's just something you say to get media coverage and further investors.

3-phase, while we're at it.

Ow.

I'd presume that the device would translate the code into alphanumeric since the point of the article is having a replacement for a keyboard. In Morse code, there are two different kinds of breaks. there is the break between letters, and the break between words. A letter break is roughly the length of a dit, and a word break is roughly the length of a dah. (and a dah is the length of 3 dits). This means that space is just a letter like any other, and fairly efficient without the need of a special break key. On the contrary, having a break key would throw off your rhythm. When you learn Morse, you learn to subdivide like that. It's basically the same as being able to keep the beat when singing a song, it really isn't very difficult.

Fast coders use a device called a keyer. it has 2 paddles. One does a stream of dits, and the other does a solid tone (which you use to manually do dahs). You tune the speed of the stream of dits based on how quickly you can comfortably code.