A few weeks ago I wrote about p-adic numbers. I mentioned that if p is not prime, then the p-adic numbers can have zero divisors; that is, there are nonzero numbers and such that . Today Foxmaths! wrote about a 10-adic number (although not using that terminology) such that (in other words is an idempotent…
Tag: Leftist numbers
What are p-adic numbers?
I am not a number theorist, but I’ve always had a distant fascination with p-adic numbers. I have a list of “neat math topics” that I want to write about on my blog, and the p-adic numbers are on that list. So I was happy to see an interesting article about them by Andrew Rich…
David Richeson: Division by Zero 