Reinventing the square wheel

There’s an almighty fuss going on across the world’s science blogs in response to a BBC report that one Dr James Anderson has discovered a way to divide by zero. He achieved this by inventing a new number, nullity. What is nullity equal to? Well, everything! From -infinity to infinity. How useful is this? Not at all! Is this even a new idea? No!
I’d comment further but there are far more elegant debunkings going on here and here.

1 comment December 8th, 2006