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Old 05-July-2009, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by agingjb View Post
And division by zero is still undefined in Robinson's hyperreals.

Many extensions of the reals can be constructed, of varying interest and usefulness, but if they remain fields, then they have a zero, division by which is undefined.
completely and utterly correct

The same observation applies to rings, where some elements may be invertible, but zero never is.
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