Bias in Numbers Part 2: The Multiplicative Inverse of 0, Mathematical Indeterminacy and the Infinite Cake
| Main Author: | Allan Porter |
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| Format: | Article Journal |
| Terbitan: |
, 2022
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/6481199 |
Daftar Isi:
- Arithmetic seems to be a perfectly adequate and complete system when ignoring 0. For any number except 0 could be divided, any number except 0 can similarly have a multiplicative inverse. Now it begs to question - what is so special about 0 that allows it to elude such basic arithmetic properties? Are these axioms and restrictions on 0 actually necessary? Or is there a way to broaden arithmetic in order to validate them?