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Yes to both, obviously.

The usual guideline is to pretend that INF is a very large finite number?  The whole idea is that a bunch of things that are approximately true about large numbers become exactly true about INF.

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Yes to both, obviously.

The usual guideline for answering questions like that is to pretend that INF is a very large finite number?  The whole idea is that a bunch of things that are approximately true about large numbers become exactly true about INF.

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Yes to both, obviously, though 1/(INF + 1) = 1/INF.

The usual guideline for answering questions like that is to pretend that INF is a very large finite number?  The whole idea is that a bunch of things that are approximately true about large numbers become exactly true about INF.

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Yes to both, obviously, though (INF-1)/INF = INF/INF, or 1/(INF + 1) = 1/INF.

The usual guideline for answering questions like that is to pretend that INF is a very large finite number?  The whole idea is that a bunch of things that are approximately true about large numbers become exactly true about INF.

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Yes to both, obviously.  Though (INF-1)/INF = INF/INF, or 1/(INF + 1) = 1/INF.

The usual guideline for answering questions like that is to pretend that INF is a very large finite number?  The whole idea is that a bunch of things that are approximately true about large numbers become exactly true about INF.

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Yes to both, obviously.

The usual guideline for answering questions like that is to pretend that INF is a very large finite number?  The whole idea is that a bunch of things that are approximately true about large numbers become exactly true about INF.