Note that it's not unfair to consider any circuit with nonzero memristance as 'containing' a memristor, after all the whole point of fundamental circuit elements is that you can add them to model stuff like wire resistance and stray capacitance. However while you can't create resistance, capacitance and inductance by combining any of the others you can have memristance by combining all 3 (technically you can create any of the 4 by combining the 3 others, but 3 of them can be built easily so those make more sense as fundemental circuit elements).
So while a linear memristor would be rather unusual, I don't quite see what's so fundamental about it as a non-linear circuit element.
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.
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.
