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I think this is the crucial bit. Division by zero in fields means nothing, but if you want to tack on calculus (part of pretending that doubles are reals) then zero is a perfectly good limit for division and it turns out that defining it as anything at all breaks your system.

I didn't like the blogpost, because it's smug, and doesn't even mention this obvious objection.



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