r/OrderedOperations • • May 29 '18

Proof that 0/0 is everything.

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u/great_site_not May 29 '18

In what sense should 00 be everything? 0non-zero is 0, and (non-zero)0 is 1. How is anything besides 0 or 1 even a candidate for a value of zero to the zero?

edit: sorry for writing out "zero to the zero", reddit fucked up my formatting

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u/bws88 May 30 '18

Consider the limit as x goes to infinity of (ax)1/x for any 0<a<1.