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- From: arno@yaps.dinoco.de (Arno Eigenwillig)
- Message-ID: <ee.ANN@yaps.dinoco.de>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 22:43:41 +0100
- Organization: Yet Another Private Site in Meckenheim, Germany
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Reply-To: arno@yaps.dinoco.de (Arno Eigenwillig)
- Subject: Re: No DOS trap /0 used!
- References: <cmanCIx8s4.IA5@netcom.com> <39.ANN@yaps.dinoco.de> <CRx7u*mr5@aargh.adsp.sub.org> <cmanCJA86q.LGq@netcom.com>
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- Hi!
-
- In article <cmanCJA86q.LGq@netcom.com>,
- cman@netcom.com (Mike Austin) writes:
-
- > On 5 Jan 94 05:21:26 GMT, Marc 'Nepomuk' Heuler (marc@aargh.adsp.sub.org)
- wrote:
- > : In article <39.ANN@yaps.dinoco.de>, Arno Eigenwillig writes:
- >
- > : > 2. What should be the value yielded by x/0? x? 0?
- >
- > : Definately a very strong random number generator fed with the current
- > : system time and moon phase as seed gives the correct result. :---)
-
- Hey, moonphase.library is still subject to NDAs, as C= considers any
- computations bound to the phase of the moon as important factors for
- management decisions =:-).
-
- > How about a requester that pops up with "Division by 0 error, results will
- > be inaccurate" and just *pretend* n/0 = 0?
-
- Why 0? Hear this *true* story: When I was in primary school, my maths
- teacher tried to persuade me x/0 = x, obviously having studied sports
- and arts or such.
- Her proof: If you give x sweets to 0 people, how much are left for you?
-
- Why not having a gadget to let the user enter the value he wants to have
- as result of x/0? ;->
-
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