Professor Comes Up With A Way To Divide From Zero

According to the article, a concept that baffled Pythagoras and Newton is 'easy'. According to Doctor Anderson,

The number line stretches all the way from minus infinity to plus infinity in a straight line. The new number, nullity, lies off the number line. I drew it above zero, but it can be drawn anywhere that is not on the line. Its geometry can be understood in the same way that the number i, the square root of minus one, can be understood. All of its algebraic properties can be drawn as pictures in co-ordinate geometry. Some people use j to indicate the square root of minus one.

And this is better than calling it Not A Number? Doctor, I'll let you explain it to my 9th grade math teacher, Mrs. Johnson.

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