Divide by Zero?

Not possible, right? Apparantly it is now, according to this article. I follow his math, but I don't know if I understand what the effects will be of this new theory, especially in regards to programming. Let me know if you have any comments on this.

I'm redoing my implementation of levels of security for members. I'm changing it from giving each member access to specific things to assigning each member a security group. Then the different parts of my site (each blog entry, photo album, etc.) will be made available to certain groups.

I want to eventually add a calendar with events that can be viewed only by certain groups, as well as, potentially, a member profile page. I probably won't go too far with that, but atleast let you view which group you are in and maybe what group others are in. We'll see how that goes, but I have a lot on my plate right now, so it will probably be a while before I get to that point.

Comments

Author: molotov
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 05:51:19 PM

His theory is complete hogwash. Let me break down his steps:





The problem is that he just 'defines' nullity as 0/0, which would be fine, but it doesn't solve the 'problem'. You see, there IS no problem. Just like zero was 'discovered', we have yet to find a mainstream way of dealing with the mathematical equivalent of "N/A". In calculus, what if a limit doesn't exist? You don't say that it's 'Nullity' or 'Zero', you just say that it doesn't exist, N/A, etc.

Since the ancients, people have had a hard time understanding 0/0 - what this ass clown does is just assign the name/number 'nullity' to this irrational number; no 'problem' is actually solved.

This is all, of course, my humble opinion, not refereed fact.


Edited on: Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 06:51:33 PM