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

[Achim Schneider]

Kalman Noel <kalman.noel at bluebottle.com> wrote:

> Achim Schneider wrote:
> > whereas lim( 0 ) * lim( inf ) is anything you want
> 
> Indeed I suppose that »lim inf«, which is a notation I'm not familiar
> with, is not actually defined to mean anything?
> 
It's an ad-hoc expression of "as the slices approach zero size, their
number approaches infinity". It's more an observation than anything
else. I have no idea how a professional mathematician would formalise
it.


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