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Bleusilences t1_ixbuwuz wrote

Reply to comment by chromeVidrio in On the advantages of believing that nothing is true by Vico1730

The value of n/0?

edit: corrected a small mistake

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chromeVidrio t1_ixcb5nu wrote

Is that a true or false question? Are you asking if it is true or false the value exists? What is n, a number? If so, no the value does not exist. The answer is false. You can’t divide by zero. Next question.

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iiioiia t1_ixd60md wrote

> The answer is false.

Excel disagrees.

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Bleusilences t1_ixdxcy9 wrote

It's neither, you can't divide by zero because the quotient is unknown.

The value exist but cannot be determined.

"The value does not exist" is more an hand waive to make the issue easier to understand.

Which is making my point that truth can be more granular than anything else because what you said is not incorrect but incomplete.

You can read about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero

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chromeVidrio t1_ixdxhwh wrote

No it’s false. There is no such thing as something that is neither true nor false.

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