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Re: 0^0 = 0.9999...
Posted:
May 7, 2012 1:02 PM
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LudovicoVan wrote:
> Julio P. Di Egidio
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> "Frederick Williams" <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:4FA7E917.A773D508@btinternet.com...
> > LudovicoVan wrote:
> >> "Frederick Williams" <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> >> news:4FA7B8FD.20F43C4F@btinternet.com...
> >>
> >> > With the question posed thus, continuity and irrational numbers needn't
> >> > come into it. In particular one need not ask:
> >> >
> >> > What is lim x^y as x -> 0 and y -> 0 somehow?
> >> >
> >> > The first clause in a familiar recursion tells us that 0^0 = 1.
> >> > Problem
> >> > solved!
> >>
> >> This problem solved, the next one just round the corner.
> >
> > And the next one is?
>
> Virgil has provided a next one.
Limits? They're irrelevant.
> And there are more around: talking about
> the underlying principle, even the 9=3 derivation is an example.
Jussi Piitulainen's "proof" that 3 = 9 rested on assuming that 0^0 = 3.
It is no indication that one shouldn't take 0^0 to be 1.
I'm not sure whether you're stupid or dishonest. Maybe you're just a
troll.
--
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by
this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting
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