Reading has apparently shown that it’s possible to divide by zero,

June 5th, 2007

I give the Knicks a lot of shit, but, I have to hand it to them for at least making it “interesting” this season. The evil empire of James Dolan and Isiah Thomas have indeed struck back. What happens when you put the top five movie-trailer voiceover artists in a limo together? Well, if it’s for a skit written for the 26th Annual Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards, you get this:
December 8th, 2006 at 2:31 pm | Comments & Trackbacks (0) | Permalink
Professor solves 1200 year old “divide by zero” problem. So what?
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So a computer science professor from the University of Reading has apparently shown that it’s possible to divide by zero, making all calculators and versions of Excel obsolete. But so what?Been quite busy here @ work today with a mailing. I started my day off properly with two eggs and a piece of turkey bacon, I brought the rest with me to put in my salad, but I ended up running errands with a friend @ lunch..we went to this Taco Bell/KFC combo (the girl is skinny) That is definitely one place where you can not do the SBD. I did my best as I was famished, and got a burrito and a soft taco and just ate the insides. I must say, I held the empty tortillas in my hand afterwards–pretty heavy. Its a few hours later and I am eating my ricotta dessert. I made a few last night and put them under the broiler in hopes that it would improve the flavor. Not really. I think its the texture of the fat-free ricotta that does not thrill me. I am using plenty of spenda and vanilla, and i am using good unsweeted chocolateghirardell.

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There is one of those Delites places near my house, and they supposedly have good sugar free low carb ice cream, I am going to check it out.
It’s a neat concept, but what can you do with it? He starts by saying that if a flight computer in a commercial airline encountered a “divide by zero” error in the programming, the plane would fall out of the sky — which is not necessarily true, but shocking statements like that will at least help get him in the news. Next, he shows his equation by defining the value of 0/0 to be a new number called “nullity”, which “doesn’t exist on the number line. So what are we supposed to do with this wayward number? If it doesn’t exist on the number line,
how is it going to help keep a plane in the sky? Instead of a calculator printing “Error”, it will print “nullity”. So what? What’s 3 x nullity?
Maybe it will have a use in physics and higher-level mathematics along side values like i and infinity. In the mean time, I’ll just assume he’s assigning a fun name to “divide by zero error”.
Ahhh it looks like there might be some fight in them afterall. However, the long term survival of Madison Square Garden is still at stake, we cannot let the death star that has invaded the Garden to get any bigger. If that should occur, we could be facing the possibility of seeing decades of mediocrity. The James Dolan “plan” MUST fail.

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