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  x=170, y=10
  x=17, y=1
  x=1.7, y=0.1
  x=0.17, y=0.01
The answer keeps being 17, even as x and y both get vanishingly close to zero.

I encourage you to play around with a 3D graphing calculator and see all the different paths you can take along that surface to reach the singularity. They all "reach" it at different heights.



you are explaining why 0 / 0 can approach 17, this is much less controversial, and is often considered the bottom element...


17 is a bottom element?


That's not what he said.




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