On December 7, BBC News reported a story about Dr James Anderson, a teacher in the Computer Science department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. In the report it was stated that Anderson had "solved a very important problem" that was 1200 years old, the problem of division by zero. According to the BBC, Anderson had created a new number, that he had named "nullity", that lay outside of the real number line. Anderson terms this number a "transreal number", and denotes it with the Greek letter F. He had taught this number to pupils at Highdown School, in Emmer Green, Reading.
on december 7 bbc news reported a story about dr james anderson a teacher in the computer science department at the university of reading in the united kingdom in the report it was stated that anderson had solved a very important problem that was 1200 years old the problem of division by zero according to the bbc anderson had created a new number that he had named nullity that lay outside of the real number line anderson terms this number a transreal number and denotes it with the greek letter f he had taught this number to pupils at highdown school in emmer green reading