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Good night 💤

Oh I'd already replied too. Oops. I swear it wasn't in your timeline though!

I can't find your 528 from earlier today

@⚡️DEFAUXKING⚡️ I'll be preparing something special tonight. Let you know when inspiration strikes

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I wasn't looking to get in an argument, and knew even replying at all was likely a mistake, but went against my instincts and did it, for reasons unknown to me (I'd just awoken from a short nap, so maybe I was still a bit foggy). I'll cut to the chase and share what I think is a cleaner argument. If we limit our attention to just algebra, and fields in this case, the reason division by zero is undefined is that division in fields is just shorthand for multiplicative inverses (i.e., inverse of A is any element, B, which multiplied times A gives the multiplicative identity, 1). 0 x B = 0 always, it's "easy" to show using the axioms, thus there is no multiplicative inverse for 0 (I guess you might also need to show 0 <> 1). But many people don't really learn about number systems this way, and the "easy" part I mentioned above may not be so obvious (comes down to using the distributive property and axioms about 0). There's no need to go to limits or sequences, in other words.

Fo sho. I like the bragadoscious statement, just having a laugh. I'll hopefully be singing the same tune (all other clients are garbage) soon, when I get a phone that can run your client. Pretty soon... I am still meaning to get a pixel with graphene soonish. Too many other things to worry about atm though.

This guy getting a big head, or what? Psssh.

Quite the view/vibe!

I think he was separating the condescension from your argument as what he had issue with. Eg, when you say "guy," like that, and "if that's too complicated to read," it comes off rude, cuz it is. You assume, as I've seen may do, that because Mike is a jokey type on here, that he's not smart, but you're wrong. Math may not be his strong suit, but he's a sharp cookie generally, and guaranteed more knowledgable/smarter than you in many areas. Usually pretty generous with his time too. Not sure why I'm white knighting for him, but whatever, just felt like saying it

Oh, you don't have to convince me. I'm in agreement. Just prefer the argument restricted to algebra only, since to me it's cleaner and gets at the "true" reason it's undefined.