Return Styles: Pseud0ch, Terminal, Valhalla, NES, Geocities, Blue Moon. Entire thread

Fraction with Zero question

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-01 14:40 ID:35VwoViQ

This is for the *genuises*. when posed with the problem, "what is the answer to 0/0?" i have come across three different solutions and im not sure which is correct:

1. since any fraction with 0 as the denominator cannot be solved, then the answer is "undefined"

2. since any fraction with 0 as the numerator is zero, then the answer is "zero"

3. finally, since any fraction in which the denominator and the numerator have the same numerical value is equal to one, the answer must be "one"


so which one is correct?

Name: Anonymous 2007-07-03 15:02 ID:p5rC80/r

no the number 0/0 is not a real number. Let's go back to basic math.

Numerator: How much out of a piece of something or part there is.

Denominator: How many parts of a peice of something there are.

Now using those definitions for the fraction 0/0, lets define the fraction. The denominator is 0. That means there is 0 parts to nothing. It isn't going on for infinite, there are no parts to it for it to go on for infinite. Now for the numerator, the numerator divides out of the denominator as we all know from the definitions (remember, it is how many parts out of the whole, and the denominator is how many parts there are). So, if there aren't any parts, then there is no numerator. So this fraction is non-existant. That is why this is not a real number.

Now you are going to ask, what does it equal? Well, if it's not a real number, nothing! hahaha, non-real numbers don't equal anything because they are either errors in equations or things like infinite or etc. So, I hope this ends this <_<

Newer Posts
Don't change these.
Name: Email:
Entire Thread Thread List