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Old 04-July-2009, 05:00 PM
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Infinity is the right-hand limit of 1/x as x->0+. Infinity is practically useful, and therefore better defined than n/0. If you were to say, "The left-hand limit is -infinity, the right-hand limit is infinity, therefore the value at zero is undefined", then I would understand what you mean.
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