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Consider these mathematical laws:

1) Any real number, when divided by zero, produces modulus and quotient zero.
Example: 0/2 = 0 (https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=0%2F2&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)

2) Any real number multiplied by zero is equal to zero.

Therefore, it logically follows, that zero divided by zero is equal to zero.

Premise 1 is false, it presupposes you can divide by zero, this operation is undefined. The division algorithm states
a=bq + r, where b|a (b divides a), The set of R/0 is not closed under division, or the multiplication inverse.

R/0 is an indeterminate form. It is undefined. A limiting process can be applied to an indeterminate form, but remember the episilon-delta proof, the limit never actually gets to zero, only "as close as we like"

The whole process shoudl be restricted to integers anyway to eliminate irrational numbers in the real set.

I meant 0/x = 0

Can nothing be divided?

Anything can be divided, that includes nothing.

This is a different question, yes 0 can be divided.
By the division algorithm

a = bq+r, can this equation be made true for a=0? Of course

0=bq + r
0 = 0*0 +0

or

0 = -1*1 +1

or any other combination. If the algorithm can be satisfied any combination is divisible

[source]
http://www.fmf.uni-lj.si/~lavric/Rosen%20-%20Elementary%20number%20theory%20and%20its%20applications.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate_form#Indeterminate_form_0.2F0

good old sinx/x, used this for solid state energy band structures.

Whoo

Thank you for sharing! :D

This is covered in your first calculus course. Find a text, stewart, online.

Thank you sir, you just made me aware of mathematical proof of god.

Everyone knows well enough not to feed the trolls, but nooooooOOOOOooooooooo, you just HAAaad to do it. You just had to teach dank about indeterminate forms.
https://i.imgur.com/2mbe2Z8.gif
Great, now dank (and pretty soon every other godbot) thinks they've got a new god toy. MATH!  ::) ::)  ::)

Would you like to swap a sticker for those hipster points?

if you divide 0 by zero and get the correct answer the universe will implode... no one has got it yet thats why were still here

Right! That's the Big Crunch and when multipling by zero it explodes, as in The Big Bang. That's why we all agreed the answer was zero. Did I miss a memo?  ???
I always hate living in reverse time...   :-\

The part about this that bugs me is that multiplication and division by everything except zero is also a scalar - repeated process of addition or subtraction respectively modifying the magnitude of the function respectively - but 2-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 is still 2. DERP!

Shout outs to indeterminate and epsilon-delta def.

For those who still don't understand:

Lets say 1/1 = 1. Eeasy right?
Now try to follow the next calculations:
1/0.1 = 10
1/0.01 = 100
1/0.001 = 1000
1/0.0001 = 1000
And so on.
The smaller the number you divide by, the larger the outcome is.

Example: 1/0.000000000000000000001 = 1000000000000000000000

So when you divide by a number which is a million times smaller then the previous one, your outcome will be a million times larger.
The closer you get to 'divide by zero', the larger the outcome is.  You can keep doing this for infinite time, but you'll never reach zero before all energy in this universe is used.

A less confusing notation would be the !

Right!  If you divide something by 0, that's the same as dividing it by nothing. If something isn't divided, the thing that is left is the original something, right? Therefore, 2/0=2.

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Oh, play the mathematical BS. This is the exact reason stuff is so confounded.

Take 10 Arabs in the desert. Divide their number by 2 and you get 2 groups of 5, right. Since "0" is nothing, divide them by nothing and they are not divided, right? So, there are still 10 Arabs, right?

English has its characteristic laws that don't make any sense. Mathematics is a language that has characteristic laws that don't make any sense as well. It's the reason that we have flaws in our thinking.

:)

I got an easy one for you...

If you're driving in a canoe and the wheels fall off, how many pieces of pizza can you eat?

Look, -0 is absence of zero. So, what exactly is the amount of non-zero?

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Wasn't a question. Was English. Non-zero is the set of whatever we were talking about = 10 Arabs.

:)

Lets say you have zero apples... and you want to give that apples to 3 persons... how many apples will get each person? cero.

that is why 0/3=0

Now you're mixing flawed math with flawed English.

:)

I see less equations and more faulty logic.

How about you leave the math to people who have studied it and you can go back to the fairy tales?

I don't have time to prove the obvious using math. It is right there, out in the open, for anyone who wants to look at it.

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I strongly disagree.

10/10 = 1
5/5 = 1
So, naturally 0/0 = 1

Another proof:
10^2 = 10 * 10
10^1 = 10
10^0 = 10/10 = 1

Similarly, we know that, 0^0 = 1, which is 0/0 = 1


Prove me wrong.

http://dividebyzero.it/divide_by_zero.jpg

zero is no real number to begin with. It doesn't occure in the real world.

dividing by 0 will always give a mathematics error. infinity. btw its has few if any applications.

it's like human beings have two hands, two legs and one penis.

there are no applications because it's not possible.

This is one incredible thread, i tell ya ...  :D

Nope, that is not correct.
That is indeterminate as well.  :)

What number times 0 will give you something?

Division and multiplication are different.

The more you know.

Guys, the solution to this can be summed by Plato's third man argument.

The solution fits in neither undefined nor zero, but the interdeterminate form

its fairly easy to divide by 0.

1/0 = ~

Senario. 1 bag of sand divide it by 0. throw it all around. = 1/0

Ask Chuck Norris.

He is the only only that can do that

Quantum math could answer this. But the answer would be as goofy as any other non-reality.

:)

Looking at what the Mexican cartels and ISIS are doing these days, the population can be divided into all the people except that one of them has lost his head... a fractional population.

:)

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If a person divides something by zero, why does he suddenly focus on the zero rather than what he was attempting to divide? Is it because it was the last part of the operation, and because it didn't work, he will always be stuck there?

:)

Another logical conclusion would be, that zero is not a number, but a lack of one. It's a state.

In the case of the United States, even 50 is turning into zero more and more.

 :D

The answer is undefined, or infinity.

Use Rotaluclac to divide everything by zero,  -1 and so on.
(Its the new Calculator ::) ::) ::))

The world we live in is a complex world with questions more than answers. Dividing by zero simply means that you have divided something into infinite small parts, consequently giving infinite parts.

It is done every day. Taken for example PHP programming, if variable in divisor is undef or zero. Spills out Zero always, which is kinda strange if you compare with what you learned at school.

Theory and practice I say.

Dayum, that's too complex for me  ???

Did you fail middle school or something?

With that same logic - any number, when divided by itself produces 1.

x / x = 1

so when x is 0, 0 / 0 = 1. Uh-oh paradox... :)

He has a point

Unless you think in literal terms;

Numerator = number of whatever
Denominator = number of groups that numerator goes into

0/1
Possible; you can put nothing in a group.

1/0
Impossible, you cannot put something into nothing

I cannot process this sorcery.

I can barely process trigonometry. This is worse than trying to read ancient Vulcan scrolls.

Correct me if I'm confused, but if you are dividing by zero, aren't you not moving at all?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_coordinates

In homogeneous coordinates when Z is 0, the point is at infinity. However the point (0, 0, 0) is undefined!

what do you mean? why did you post something like this anyway?
i thought i am going to learn how to divide using zero but the answer is still zero

√1- = i

2/0 = 2PLACEMENTHOLDER

.. why not..?

WTF AM I READING, guys?

OP has never heard of Calpanic Numbers: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.2798v1.pdf