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Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero

Posted by samzenpus on from the it-seems-so-obvious-now dept.

54mc writes "The BBC reports that Dr. James Anderson, of the University of Reading, has finally conquered the problem of dividing by zero. His new number, which he calls "nullity" solves the 1200 year old problem that niether Newton nor Pythagoras could solve, the problem of zero to the zero power. Story features video (Real Player only) of Dr. Anderson explaining the "simple" concept."

2 of 1,090 comments (clear)

  1. MOD THE TROLL DOWN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Parent is a known troll! Do not encourage it!!

  2. Re:Well, thats just nullty. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    "How do you insert new lines in posts? I am using them when typing, but when I'm looking at the posts, they look like some sausage of letters :(

    OMFGZ0R. ROFL! N000000000000000000000B!!!!!! N00000000000000000000000000000000000B!

    Ahem, Use the HTML option and enclose your paragraphs in the <p> and <p/> tags