Which of the following sentence is irrefutable? [closed]
Which sentence is correct?
- The expression 0/0 is undefined.
- The expression "0/0" is undefined.
What is the part of speech of "expression" and "0/0" in this sentence?
Solution 1:
The expression xyz is a string containing an announcement of a quote (in the widest sense of that word, something one wishes to display) and the actual quote.
Quotes are traditionally offset by quotation marks, as in direct speech:
- She shouted "Can you manage to swim across?"
Here, I'd prefer italics to offset a non-word expression, but 0/0 looks weird rather than highlighted. 0/0 is distinct enough, though adding offset quotes thus: '0/0' is not too unkind on the eyes and follows some old convention obediently. I usually prefer a horizontal bar, which demands a mathematical font.
The rules of grammar and punctuation are somewhat different in the maths domain. I'd probably stick here with
- Division by zero is not a feasible operation, so 1/0, 3·142/0 and 0/0 etc are undefined.