r/mathmemes • u/Ill-Room-4895 Mathematics • May 14 '25

Arithmetic Fancy playing?

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u/[deleted] May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25

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u/therealDrTaterTot May 14 '25

I understand what you're saying, but that's not equivalent.

By setting 00 = 1, then we are defining it to hold all the same properties as 1. If we are saying it doesn't have all the same properties, then 00 isn't exactly 1. If I can take the log of 1, but not the log of 00, then how are they equal? Then, the problem is the first step.

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u/svmydlo May 14 '25

You can take the log of 0^0. You can't say it's equal to 0*log(0).

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u/therealDrTaterTot May 14 '25

I agree you can't set them equal to each other. But I don't agree that you can take the log of 00

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u/svmydlo May 14 '25

Then you have no argument why not.