Why is Infinity multiplied by Zero not an easy Zero answer?
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Infinity Times Zero is Not Zero
The problem is that the laws of addition and multiplication you are using hold for natural numbers, but infinity is not a natural number, so these laws do not apply. If they did, you could use a similar argument that multiplying anything by infinity, no matter how small, gives infinity, thus ∞×0=∞. More sophisticated…