>>3
Fail? Demonstrate how division destroys information.
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Anonymous2007-09-27 5:25 ID:ISW4TX3h
>>4
10 / 0 = ???
obviously from the ??? we can see that the 10, the / and the 0 have been destroyed. It's like trying to cast the 'be not' spell in the Eddings universe.
>>7
What does that fucking have to do with divsion?
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Anonymous2007-09-27 8:11 ID:yZ64nhOw
This whole thread is an argument about the original post, which is based on the premise "information cannot be destroyed". Now, aside from being generally made-up shit, it's probably wrong if you begin to relate the information theoretic and thermodynamic entropies. Thermodynamics states entropy tends to increase, and information theory states entropy is the opposite of information, so, if they're related, you get the conclusion information decreases.
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Anonymous2007-09-27 9:19 ID:ISW4TX3h
>>6 the original information was destroyed what you made there was a copy, not the original.
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Anonymous2007-09-27 11:15 ID:LbFe+AkF
Yeah, it's fucking obvious that information can be destroyed. You write some important information on a chalkboard. Then you erase the chalkboard. Where'd the information go?
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LordRiordan2007-09-28 1:47 ID:wlI1/sjq
If you divide 10 by nothing then you get an infinite number.
You can put an unlimited amount of <x> that has no space into some other number... right?
This thread is phail for randomly throwing around the terms "information" and "2nd law of thermodynamics" without any relevence to mathematics. >>9 knows that this thread is bs!
>>3
Division is only defined for certain algebraic structures, eg fields (not cars or other physical objects). The "divide" encountered in common usage is only related for division by non zero finite integers.
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Anonymous2007-09-30 22:59 ID:0BOq5kkM
you guys are nerds
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Anonymous2007-10-01 0:29 ID:QikAVsDf
Anything divided by zero is infinity, as anything divided by infinity is zero. Nothing more/nothing less.
Not worth bringing information loss paradox into it.
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Anonymous2007-10-01 1:22 ID:Uk3rB4AP
>>15
Really? What about infinity divided by infinity? Zero divided by zero?
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Anonymous2007-10-01 3:08 ID:ow55fo9c
you can't ever finish dividing by zero. what I mean is, as division is simply inverse multiplication and multiplication is simply repeated addition (you fags keep your higher-level abstract definitions to yourselves for one god-damn minute), a quotient is a count of how many times it takes to subtract the divisor from the dividend to get to zero. well if you are subtracting zero from the dividend, when the hell will you finish? 24/0? 24 - 0 - 0 - 0 ...
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Anonymous2007-10-01 15:49 ID:TpPiN9fB
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Anonymous2007-10-01 16:14 ID:/OULG/qK
inifinity/infinity=indeterminated... read earl w swokowski's calculus book, imo, information is not destroyed if you do not use it, in a practical way, 10 apples divied by 5 grils, 2 apples for each one, 10 apples divided by zero girls, zero apples, for no one, information keeps intact, you have your apples, so why in an abstract demonstration it has to be so hard?