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In fact memristance is just the voltage divided by the current

In fact, voltage divided by current is resistance, BY DEFINITION.

Hey, you can also take a bunch of resistors, wire them in a loop and proclaim you have successfully emulated inductor with just resistors. That is what you get if you decide to set aside rules.

Important part of the description of what is memristor is its dependence on past charge flown through it, you can't decide to ignore parts of definition whenever it suits your argument.

In fact, voltage divided by current is resistance, BY DEFINITION.

For a linear resistor sure, but otherwise resistance is better defined as the slope.

And well if you don't like that definition of memristance I suggest you update the corresponding wikipedia article.

Hey, you can also take a bunch of resistors, wire them in a loop and proclaim you have successfully emulated inductor with just resistors. That is what you get if you decide to set aside rules.

A circle of resistors has 0 inductance by definition. In practice it's pretty tricky to build such a circuit using 0 inductance wire in an impermeable environment so it remains an approximation.

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