division by zero is a meaningless operation and it can't be done. the 1=0 thing that snerlin has in his signature is wrong. you can see this page for explanations http://ubmail.ubalt.edu/~harsham/zero/ZERO.HTM mmm... well what are your thoughts?
Basically, division by zero can't happen. It's like a splitting a cookie to 0 people. If you just throw it away, the cookie will still be there. If you keep it, you'll still be giving it to 1 person. There's no possible way to do it. When it's impossible, mathematicians just call it infinite for lack of a better word or a way to deal with it.
Snerlin's formula was flawed there. Mathematically, it's sort of a lesser known rule that whatever is divided by a number cannot equal zero. (A-B) <> 0 (or rather the = thing with the slash, but it ain't on my keyboard)
So, here, I offer my formula on how 1 = 0.
Let's say A=1 and B=0
0(A)=X
0(A)=0
0(B)=Y
0(B)=0
X=Y
0(A)=0(B)
A=B
1=0
It's still division by 0 if you look at it carefully, but it's a much simpler one to understand . Division by 0 should be banned.
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Necropixel:
Not sure, but I think it is possible to divide by infinite. You see, when you take a cookie and sacrifice it to um... the essence of the universe which completely absorbs it and divides into an infinite amount of unimaginable beings, you're left without any cookies. Not a single crumb. Or maybe the crumbs get converted into pure energy (e.g. heat, light).
Grazzum:
I personally have no complain only if the things I made up were wrong but everyone thought they were right for 2000 or so years. But this... this could cause real problems every time we look for the true meaning of existence.
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However, how many 0's can you get out of 0?In other words 0/0 = ?
The answer is 1 because there is only 1 0 in 0. Nothing consists of 1 nothing.
The page is wrong about
any number divided by 0 doesn't equal inifinity though. Just pull out a graphing calculator and type into Y=, 8/X.(I chose 8 because the effect on the graph would be more visible this way.
When X=0, it'll say error on the tables because infinity can't really be expressed in numbers. However, if you look at the graph, it'll go straight up to infinty.
Dividing by 0 results in an imaginary result of either the "0/0" or "+ or - infintity".See it just as something that can't be done with real numbers. It can only be done imaginarily. In the end, that website and the "dividing by 0" is only a matter of opinion anyways.
My sig is just for fun.I was originally shown this trick by a friend at school.
Actally, it would be zero, because you get nothing out of nothing, i.e. 0 / 0 = 0. You're mistake is that you're assuming zero acts like all positive numbers where it does not.
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It is NOT a matter of opinion whether 0/0 = 1 or undefined, our mathematics fall apart if its 1. How many apples does each person get if no apples are shared amoungst no people? The answer is certainly not 1!
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