Statistics

[Tiberius]

College level. Final year.
I understand that it isn't actually zero, but we are taught to write it as zero. (Not even with a ≈)

I wonder how he would explain away the problem of 1 = 0 (or any other number equaling 0 if that were the case.

If you want to be accurate, you could always write it as:

lim(x->∞) 1/x = 0

That makes sense to have an equals sign, since you're only defining the limit of the function.