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make 0*Infinity = 0

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• Subject: [mg47257] make 0*Infinity = 0
• From: Daniel Reeves <dreeves at umich.edu>
• Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:03:54 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I'm really stumped on how to make 0*Infinity evaluate to 0.
I've tried all the obvious things, like
 Unprotect[Infinity]; 
 Infinity*0 = 0;
along with all the variations I can think of using UpSet and 
DirectedInfinity[_], etc.
Alas, 0*Infinity always comes back with Indeterminate.

Thanks!
Daniel

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