Dividing zero by zero?

[SloppyMoe606]

Surely a blackhole won't happen because in order for that to happen, you have to divide A NUMBER by 0. Since 0 isn't a number, and you divide it by another 0, you would be dividing a placeholder by a placeholder.

[Letiger]

0 divided by 0, or any number for that matter, is infinity since 0 Can go into any number an infinite times. Now with negatives...

-0/0

[SloppyMoe606]

At 4/12/10 06:47 PM, SpamBurger wrote: Except that 0 is a number...

Zero isn't a number fool, it's a placeholder.

[JKMonkey]

0/0=0

duh

[Psychopathic-Mind]

The whole DIVIDE BY ZERO KILLS EVERYONE thing is getting annoying.

[schadow-of-an-angel]

At 4/12/10 06:55 PM, Psychopathic-Mind wrote: The whole DIVIDE BY ZERO KILLS EVERYONE thing is getting annoying.

So there is a way to kill god.

[Aigis]

0/0 is one of those complicated math things that are very difficult for the layman to understand.

It's called an 'indeterminate form' which means that its value depends on what it is being used for. 0/0 is equal to every real number, and in an equation can equal anything.

[Haloya]

a / b = c ; b * c = a
If a = 0, b = 0, and c = 0 ...
Then 0 / 0 = 0 ; 0 * 0 = 0
Technically it works, but what's the point?

[Yacazuma]

zero devided by zero is zero.

[Tetimaru000]

Why can't logic just settle in and say there is no answer?

[Letiger]

0/1

How many times can 0 go into 1?

Infinite.

[GoryBlizzard]

0/0 is just an indeterminate form (and as such, tells us nothing), much like 0^0, infinity/infinity, 1^infinity, infinity^0, infinity - infinity, and 0 * infinity.

[Letiger]

Here's an example 1.00000000000000000000000000001

[k6ka]

This is what my onscreen calculator said:

[Aigis]

At 4/12/10 07:16 PM, letiger wrote: 0/1

How many times can 0 go into 1?

Infinite.

Okay, but how many zeroes does it take to get to 1?

Let's find out.

0+0=0.
0+0+0=0.
0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0=0
0+0+0+0+0+0+ ... (infinity) ... 0+0+0= 0.

No matter how many zeroes you add together, the result is always going to be zero.

[Mags1722]

hmmm
*pulls out calculator, punches in some numbers and
"....OH SHI-"

[Spunky6666]

Techinically, 0/0 does equal zero. Realistically, however, dividing nothing by nothing is impossible, because the nothing that you are dividing doesn't really exist. Or does it? Hm...

[ElectricToothbrush]

At 4/12/10 06:48 PM, Ejit wrote: It's proof that it doesn't work.

Anything divided by itself has to be 1.

But this is contradicted by 0*0=0, so logically 0/0=0

It can't be done.

Also, using that idea:

1*0=2*0
Therefore,
(0/0)1=(0/0)2 [any number over itself is one]
Simplifies to:
1=2
Which of course is false.

[95688kage]

0 divided by a number is 0.

Happy?

[EJR]

At 4/12/10 07:22 PM, GoryBlizzard wrote: 0/0 is just an indeterminate form (and as such, tells us nothing), much like 0^0, infinity/infinity, 1^infinity, infinity^0, infinity - infinity, and 0 * infinity.

Listen to this guy.

[Garage]

Chromey Calc. saves the day again!

[icecreammac]

0/0 is indeterminate, since any number multiplied by 0 is 0.

[DJ-Chilvan]

What the hell is so confusing about this?
By the way I see it, If you have nothing, and divide it by nothing (don't divide it at all), then you still have nothing because technically you didn't divide anything. I know you're thinking that if you have one and don't divide it at all (0) then you have one, but no, you have undefined. Lemme tell yall something, undefined is a man's way of saying, "fuck math, I'm too lazy to sit here and ponder over useless bullshit." That's why whenever in math class, an answer is undefined, I just sit back and smile because I didn't have to do shit. Yall should be happy. When mathematicians invented "undefined," they were thinking about us and did us a huge favor.

[LiveBreatheTom]

L'hopital that bitch of an equation!

Assuming you're dealing with the limit of the equation as values approach zero.

[Nergali]

Dividing zero by zero makes a white hole appear.

[Raab]

Every time you post a "Divide by Zero" thread, Bear Grylls eats a kitten.

[ljianyih]

0/0 << is eyes with slanted nose.

[DontExplain]

At 4/13/10 04:14 AM, XxRobJohnsonxX wrote: Every time you post a "Divide by Zero" thread, Bear Grylls eats a kitten.

brb, making some threads. :D

[Hoeloe]

0/0 is impossible. For practical purposes, any number/0 = positive infinity, but even 0/0 is impossible.

Proof by contradiction:

Any number divided by itself = 1.
Zero divided by any number = 0.

a/b = c, therefore b*c = a
a = 0, b = 0.

c can be anything, as 0*any number = 0.

Dividing by 0 doesn't work under any circumstances, unless you use flawed algebra.

[Aigis]

At 4/13/10 09:19 AM, Hoeloe wrote: Any number divided by itself = 1.
Zero divided by any number = 0.

You're making a couple of pretty bold assumptions there.

You get the first part because any other number does that. 5/5=1 because there can only be 1 5 in 5, right? Any more fives and you've got yourself a higher number than 5, and any fewer and you've got 0.

However, with 0, you can have any number of zeroes in zero. There can be 1 zero in zero.

0=0.

You can also have two zeroes in zero:

0+0=0

And so on.

0/0 is undefined because essentially it can equal anything. Not because it has to equal both zero and one.

E.g.

0/0 = 2 --- (0+0)
2*0 = 0.

0/0 = 5 --- (0+0+0+0+0)
5*0 = 0.

Etc.