Message Forum: Re: The EVIL Metric system taking away my HERITAGE

Re: The EVIL Metric system taking away my HERITAGE

Posted By: Matthew, on host 194.117.133.166
Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2001, at 08:23:31
In Reply To: Re: The EVIL Metric system taking away my HERITAGE posted by julian on Tuesday, July 3, 2001, at 08:12:13:

> > How is it easier to divide by 0 than by 10?
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> > Trav"someone had to ask"holt
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> You always get the same result.
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> jul".. and I can't help answering"ian

Division by zero is undefined. There is no answer to get. I guess that does make it easier to answer "What is x divided by 0?", because you can just say "It's undefined" rather than thinking about it. What's even easier is to define it yourself. I hereby define x/0 to be 0 for all real x.

Matthew

Replies To This Message

Re: Division by Zero - wintermute - Tue, 7/3/2001, 08:32:16
- Re: Division by Zero - Fuzzpilz - Tue, 7/3/2001, 14:55:50
  - Re: Division by Zero - gremlinn - Tue, 7/3/2001, 16:52:46
  - Re: Division by Zero - Wes - Tue, 7/3/2001, 16:26:09
- Re: Division by Zero - Matthew - Tue, 7/3/2001, 12:36:14
  - Re: Division by Zero - wintermute - Wed, 7/4/2001, 00:36:23
    - Re: Division by Zero - Matthew - Wed, 7/4/2001, 10:00:45
- Re: Division by Zero - gremlinn - Tue, 7/3/2001, 10:22:20