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Division by zero

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-10 18:59

Whether division by zero is possible or not is a matter of metamathematics. Division is just a distribution of elements among a number of receivers. However, how many elements would you give to no receivers? The answer is simple. You wouldn't give any elements. This certainly makes sense. With this I can prove division of any number by zero equals to zero.

I would like to quote a famous statement: ex nihilo nihil fit (from nothing, nothing comes). This is yet another proof that x / 0 = 0, for any x, including infinite.

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-11 4:32 (sage)

>>1
Your still wrong. Let's look at division intuitively another way. 6/2 = 3 means that we need to 3 groups of 2 elements to have 6 total elements. How many groups of 0 elements sums to 6 elements? There is no answer – no number of 0-element groups will ever equal up to anything (except 0, but that's where this intuitive illustration fails). Division by zero is not defined.

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