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::::: It's not clear to me why this should be any worse than languages which return "Not a Number" for <math>0 \div 0</math>. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 12:36, 16 September 2011 (UTC) |
::::: It's not clear to me why this should be any worse than languages which return "Not a Number" for <math>0 \div 0</math>. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 12:36, 16 September 2011 (UTC) |
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:::::: But we all seem to agree that other solutions are incorrect (I haven't looked at the recent D edit yet): being no more incorrect than other incorrect solutions doesn't say much, I think. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 19:30, 16 September 2011 (UTC) |
:::::: But we all seem to agree that other solutions are incorrect (I haven't looked at the recent D edit yet): being no more incorrect than other incorrect solutions doesn't say much, I think. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 19:30, 16 September 2011 (UTC) |
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::::::: My comparison was not between "J solution" and "Incorrect solution implemented in language X". My comparison was between "J solution" and "languages such as Javascript which yield NaN for 0/0". If the J solution is incorrect for giving a non-answer when there are an infinity of answers, then the Javascript language must also be incorrect. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 19:50, 16 September 2011 (UTC) |
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