• SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    The answer would still not be 0 as 0 is clearly still well defined within that system. NaN, undefined, etc. would be acceptable answers though. Otherwise you define:

    for x > y, y - x = 0

    Which defines that x = y

    Resulting in the conditional x > y no longer being true

    Also x/0 isn’t NaN. It’s just poorly defined and so in computing will often return “NaN” because what the answer is depends on the numbering system used and accidentally switching/conflating numbering systems is a very easy way to create a mathmatical fallacy like the one above.