Heart Happy (cathy_edgett) wrote,
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Zero and Infinity!

I am going through old journals and I come across this note on the O, which represents zero and infinity. It seems that Aristotle argued that the number zero should be outlawed because it disrupted the consistency of other numbers. Dividing any number by 0 led to an incomprehensible result which later became a definition for infinity.

I decide to google Aristotle and zero and infinity. There isn't an infinity of information yet, but this brings up a fascinating site.

http://books.google.com/books?id=obJ70nxVYFUC&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=aristotle+-+zero+and+infinity&source=bl&ots=JMcFZSVf7o&sig=jMFUmA-opfR7ZiViftSLar6z4XI&hl=en&ei=JazaSaijHZa6tQOLoMHOBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA86,M1





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