Re: [Mid] Math bashing

From: Alan Terlep <atterlep_at_oakland.edu>
Date: Tue 21 Dec 1999 03:03:41 PM EST
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.20.9912211503020.10244-100000@saturn4.acs.oakland.edu>

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Charles J. Cohen wrote:

}>Well let me ask you this--can yo uconstruct a statement that is true f 0 but
}>not true of an infinitely small number?
}
}I can do the opposite.
}
}It is true that sin(x)/x approaches 1 for an infinitely small number,
}but sin(0)/0 is undefined.

But it's only undefined because we don't define it.

Fairfax

From: Alan Terlep <atterlep@oakland.edu>
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