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5th December, 2003 at 20:51:19 -

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?

 
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5th December, 2003 at 21:58:02 -

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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5th December, 2003 at 22:03:29 -

Can you divide by infinity? THAT, my friends, is the question.

 
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5th December, 2003 at 22:33:35 -

I Personally have no complaint to it, I mean Aristotle made things up that were wrong and stayed wrong for 2000 or so years.

 
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6th December, 2003 at 00:40:07 -

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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6th December, 2003 at 00:48:38 -

I was joking.

 
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6th December, 2003 at 04:15:24 -

Too late, you've started it now!

Therefore, if you divide by infinity to get 0, doesn't it follow that if you divide by 0 you get infinity, rather than [undefined]?

Yes, Snerlin's formula is flawed, obviously, but it's still quite clever if you don't notice.

 
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6th December, 2003 at 17:28:43 -

If A does not equal 0
then A/0= + or - infinity

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.

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6th December, 2003 at 20:09:40 -

The answer is 1 because there is only 1 0 in 0.

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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6th December, 2003 at 20:18:16 -

i feel a song coming on.






......always look on the bright side of life.... dee doo... dee doo dee doo dee doo...

 
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6th December, 2003 at 21:27:07 -

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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6th December, 2003 at 23:30:29 -

Your thinking Logically Ben_02 not Mathematically.

 
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7th December, 2003 at 07:37:28 -

ben_02:That web page said that 0/0 could be just about anything.

0/0=X(imaginary number)

That's why I say 0/0 is just an opinion because it could be anything.

Rapidflash:a negative number divided by itself = 1 too. Not just positive numbers. But that's not the point.

I've modified parts of my sig if that makes anyone happy.

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7th December, 2003 at 09:30:19 -

lol...

 
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7th December, 2003 at 15:30:16 -

Snerlin: I'm talking about any division, not just by itself.

 
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