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Divide by zero?
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| Target |
Posted on 12/11/2013 19:33:27
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Can be serious, but mainly a silly thread on what would happen if you divided by zero...
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Posted on 12/11/2013 19:45:23
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Probably something like this.
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| SkyDiv3r17 |
Posted on 12/11/2013 20:07:25
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Lazy = Thread spammer 
Edited by SkyDiv3r17 on 12/11/2013 20:08:13
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| ninja |
Posted on 12/11/2013 20:25:27
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Within the standard field of real numbers, division by zero isn't defined. If you try to divide by zero, you'll just get gibberish - this is how "proofs" that 0=1 tend to arise.
However, it is possible to consistently define mathematical objects that involve 'division by zero' and 'infinity'. For example, we define the Möbius maps over the extended complex plane C U {infinity} - the union of the complex plane and infinity.
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Posted on 12/11/2013 20:28:11
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Posted on 12/11/2013 20:28:35
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Wouldn't it be as you get closer to dividing by 0, the closer you get to infinity then? or am I thinking of something else? o.O
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Posted on 12/11/2013 20:32:59
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shes twerking it open! duh! LOL rofl
What We Do In Life Echos In Eternity.
STUPID = Smart Talented Unique Person In Demand
Can you run faster than 1,200 feet per second? In case you didn’t know, that is the average speed of a 9 mm bullet fired from my gun.
Before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes.That way, when you criticize them…
you are a mile away from them…
and you have their shoes.
“I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.”
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Posted on 12/11/2013 20:37:07
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So much random stuff |
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| ninja |
Posted on 12/11/2013 20:43:17
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Target wrote:
Wouldn't it be as you get closer to dividing by 0, the closer you get to infinity then? or am I thinking of something else? o.O
Yes. We could say that the limit of 1/x as x tends to zero (from above) is infinity. One has to be very careful introducing something like 1/0 = infinity; though. You'd have to answer difficult questions like 1 + infinity = ? and 2 * infinity = ? and 0 * infinity = ?, which may have unexpected consequences.
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Posted on 12/11/2013 20:46:15
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ninja wrote:
Target wrote:
Wouldn't it be as you get closer to dividing by 0, the closer you get to infinity then? or am I thinking of something else? o.O
Yes. We could say that the limit of 1/x as x tends to zero (from above) is infinity. One has to be very careful introducing something like 1/0 = infinity; though. You'd have to answer difficult questions like 1 + infinity = ? and 2 * infinity = ? and 0 * infinity = ?, which may have unexpected consequences.
Ooh okay..Gotcha.
I think i was thinking of sin/cos/tan graphs wheb I was about it but guess it's relevant. But still cool 
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Posted on 12/11/2013 20:55:15
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I typed it in on my calculator and got this. 
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| Vlexis XII |
Posted on 12/11/2013 21:03:01
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The universe implodes if you divide by zero.
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Posted on 12/11/2013 21:36:59
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Vlexis XII wrote:
The universe implodes if you divide by zero.
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Posted on 12/11/2013 23:00:19
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ninja wrote:
Within the standard field of real numbers, division by zero isn't defined. If you try to divide by zero, you'll just get gibberish - this is how "proofs" that 0=1 tend to arise.
However, it is possible to consistently define mathematical objects that involve 'division by zero' and 'infinity'. For example, we define the Möbius maps over the extended complex plane C U {infinity} - the union of the complex plane and infinity.
This.
Division is glorified subtraction. 20÷4=5. Why? 20-4=16,16-4=12,12-4=8,8-4=4,4-4=0. 5 subtraction statements. Dividing by zero is not so simple. 10÷0= 10-0. But, how many times? Infinitely many times. Thinking this way, you could say 10÷0=Infinity. But that means you can use infinity as any other number (excluding things like Sums, or the weird shaped E). You get answers like 10=400,005. It's gobble-de-guk. It doesn't work.
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