[Haskell-cafe] 0/0 > 1 == False

Cristian Baboi cristi at ot.onrc.ro
Thu Jan 10 04:07:15 EST 2008


On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:48:51 +0200, Benja Fallenstein  
<benja.fallenstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mitar,
>
> On Jan 10, 2008 9:22 AM, Mitar <mmitar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I understand that proper mathematical behavior would be that as 0/0 is
>> mathematically undefined that 0/0 cannot be even compared to 1.
>
> My understanding is that common mathematical practice is that
> comparing an undefined value to anything (including itself) always
> yields false; "x /= x" is sometimes used to formalize "x is
> undefined."

Why let a = a in a /= a is not False ?



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