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josef betancourt

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The multiplicative inverse of zero Posted: Dec 3, 2013 4:57 PM
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This is silly but while reading something it mentioned that zero has no multiplicative inverse. Since grade school I’ve always been puzzled by how math has weird corner cases like this, another: 1 divided by 3, never ends! Anyway, what if zero did have an inverse? Is there some Abstract Algebra thingy that has such [...]

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