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- James Arthur Dean Wallace Anderson, known as James Anderson, is a retired member of academic staff in the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading, England, where he used to teach compilers, algorithms, fundamentals of computer science and computer algebra, programming and computer graphics. Anderson quickly gained publicity in December 2006 in the United Kingdom when the regional BBC South Today reported his claim of "having solved a 1200 year old problem", namely that of division by zero. However, commentators quickly responded that his ideas are just a variation of the standard IEEE 754 concept of NaN (Not a Number), which has been commonly employed on computers in floating point arithmetic for many years. Dr Anderson defended against the criticism of his claims on BBC Berkshire on 12 December 2006, saying, "If anyone doubts me I can hit them over the head with a computer that does it." Anderson was banned from teaching transreal arithmetic at the University of Reading in 2019 when he was reported to have been teaching it during a class "Fundamentals of Computer Science". Anderson's nullity and transreal arithmetic are unaccepted by mathematicians and computer scientists alike, and is not a fundamental part of computer science. Shortly after, he quit, around the end of 2019. (en)
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- Geoffrey Daniel Sullivan (en)
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- Computer algebra (en)
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- James A. D. W. Anderson (en)
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- James Arthur Dean Wallace Anderson, known as James Anderson, is a retired member of academic staff in the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading, England, where he used to teach compilers, algorithms, fundamentals of computer science and computer algebra, programming and computer graphics. Dr Anderson defended against the criticism of his claims on BBC Berkshire on 12 December 2006, saying, "If anyone doubts me I can hit them over the head with a computer that does it." (en)
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- James A. D. W. Anderson (en)
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- James A. D. W. Anderson (en)
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