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Zero divided by zero
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Source International Conference on APL archive
Proceedings of the eighth international conference on APL table of contents
Ottawa, Canada
Pages: 295 - 296  
Year of Publication: 1976
Author
E. E. McDonnell
Sponsors
MSSNT : Ministry of State for Science and Technology
SIGAPL: ACM Special Interest Group on APL Programming Language
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Current implementations of APL give one as the result of zero divided by zero. This paper gives the reasons for proposing that this quotient be changed to zero. Two conventions introduced by K. E. Iverson [1] for the exposition of mathematical topics are used here.


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1
Iverson, K. E., Elementary Analysis, draft of textbook submitted for publication.
2
E. E. McDonnell, A notation for the GCD and LCM functions, Proceedings of seventh international conference on APL, p.240-243, June 11-13, 1975, Pisa, Italy  [doi>10.1145/800117.803810]

CITED BY  6
Eugene McDonnell, Fuzzy residue, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.9 n.4, p.42-46, June 1979
Harvey Davies, Infinity arithmetic, comparisons and J, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.25 n.4, p.28-34, June 1995
Karl Fritz Ruehr, A survey of extensions to APL, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.13 n.1, p.277-314, September 1982
Terence J. Reed, Functional programming, the IEEE floating point standard and APL, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.17 n.4, p.341-347, May 1987
Kenneth E. Iverson, A dictionary of APL, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.35 n.1-2, p.32-67, March, June 2007
Kenneth E. Iverson, A dictionary of APL, ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad, v.18 n.1, p.5-40, September 1, 1987

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
      I.2.3 Deduction and Theorem Proving
          Subjects: Uncertainty, "fuzzy," and probabilistic reasoning


General Terms:
Theory

Collaborative Colleagues:
E. E. McDonnell: colleagues

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