I can devide by zero

[misterchees0]

It equals %u221E or 0.

When you think about it, if you've got 10 apples and there's two people, you give five to each.

But if you have zero people, then that's just 10 apples, and you can't quantify an apple just sitting there.

So I win. Problem, Norris?

[RyderOmega]

At 12/2/10 09:56 PM, misterchees0 wrote: It equals %u221E or 0.

When you think about it, if you've got 10 apples and there's two people, you give five to each.

But if you have zero people, then that's just 10 apples, and you can't quantify an apple just sitting there.

But if there's 0 people and 10 apples, then you can't divide my anything, since there's nothing to divide it by.

[LichKingz]

At 12/2/10 09:56 PM, misterchees0 wrote: It equals %u221E or 0.

When you think about it, if you've got 10 apples and there's two people, you give five to each.

But if you have zero people, then that's just 10 apples, and you can't quantify an apple just sitting there.

So I win. Problem, Norris?

No, you don't win. Using your logic, the answer in a division problem is how many apples each person gets. So how many apples of the 10 apples does each person get if there are no peo---

[Wyatt2012]

Well of course you can devide by 0, but you can't divide by 0.

[6r0undZ3r0]

You may be able to divide by zero, but you still can't spell.

[Numbuh1Over0]

I feel this thread was intentionally designed to get my attention (1 over 0 is the same as 1 divided by 0).

But, when dividing by zero, it's a mathematical impossibility. It simply isn't allowed. You can't divide one apple amongst no people. Asking for how much of the apple each person gets is irrelevant, so X divided by zero would be an imaginary number (not to be confused with the imaginary constant, i, or the square root of negative one).

Case closed.