>Euler says you can divide by 0 >Brainlets on /sci/ say

>>8895814
>can't distinguish between reals and extended reals
no anon, you're the brainlet

>>8895827
+ or -

>>8895814
wtf i hate euler now

>>8895977
maybe if you were to stop being such a brainlet you would be able to understand him

Euler clearly understood limits before they were formalized

>>8895827
Exactly this.

>>8895814
I don't think he's making the case that you can divide by zero, but merely explaining how such a division could result in an infinitely large number, and extrapolating from this and the behavior of zero that $\infty = 2* \infty$ etc

>>8896117
Pretty much everyone understands limits intuitively. Even a kid could understand that x^2 goes to infinity as x does.

Remember that Euler lived before modern versions of calculus.

>>8895814
>Euler
>English text
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