i reckon one day we will...and either nothing will happen and disappoint everyone...or you know, branston pickle on no more heroes type of thing
Poll: Can YOU divide by zero?
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I see what you have done there sir.Aku_San said:
As for dividing zero, I can. You take 0 and gt ( and )
And yes, that was pretty lame, even for myself.
I've been told that if you divide by zero you get infinity (something to do with the idea that once zero becomes a decimal the number of zeros within a zero goes on for ever or something like that) so I guess that's a yes for me.
Yes, you get infinity because once zero becomes a decimal the number of zeros after the decimal point goes on forever (or so I'm told).
By the way good job beating me to this topic. Next thing I know someone will beat me to the subject of how poorly executed the Wild Wasteland perk in Fallout: New Vegas was.
EDIT: Sorry for the double post. The comment system can be a real pain sometimes.
By the way good job beating me to this topic. Next thing I know someone will beat me to the subject of how poorly executed the Wild Wasteland perk in Fallout: New Vegas was.
EDIT: Sorry for the double post. The comment system can be a real pain sometimes.
As a maths book I read once said: "Try and divide seven by zero, and what do you get? A headache."
Seriously though, the only thing I've come across is L'Hopital's Rule, which deals with functions that end up dividing by zero when x=0, for example cot(x), by working the equation as x approaches zero, but not actually using x=0. It basically works by using Taylor Series and treating the function as f(x)/g(x); in this case, cot(x)=cos(x)/sin(x). As x approaches 0, cot(x)=f'(x)/g'(x), which is -sin(x)/cos(x). At x=0, f'(x)/g'(x)=0, although as stated, this isn't truly dividing by zero, just getting very, very close to it.
Seriously though, the only thing I've come across is L'Hopital's Rule, which deals with functions that end up dividing by zero when x=0, for example cot(x), by working the equation as x approaches zero, but not actually using x=0. It basically works by using Taylor Series and treating the function as f(x)/g(x); in this case, cot(x)=cos(x)/sin(x). As x approaches 0, cot(x)=f'(x)/g'(x), which is -sin(x)/cos(x). At x=0, f'(x)/g'(x)=0, although as stated, this isn't truly dividing by zero, just getting very, very close to it.
Umm...I failed Calculus so no way in hell. I saw one of my friends do it once though; there was a large explosion, I woke up three days later in the middle of a mile wide crater. Haven't seen my friend since then either.
I have had this arguement with so many people over the years. While I was sitting my leaving cert I came up with a way to divide by zero that none of my teachers or subsiquent lecturers through my degree or masters degree argue was wrong. One philosophy student managed a half arsed arguement against it, but hey he was a philosophy student dirp head.
Ok here goes, lets boil maths down to its simplist form...apples and oranges. It is how we all learned. 1 apple + 2 apples = 3 apples etc. So if there are 8 apples existing in the universe somewhere and they are divided between 0 people there are still 8 apples...not infinate apples...just 8.
EDIT: damn it, ninjad by cakes....
Ok here goes, lets boil maths down to its simplist form...apples and oranges. It is how we all learned. 1 apple + 2 apples = 3 apples etc. So if there are 8 apples existing in the universe somewhere and they are divided between 0 people there are still 8 apples...not infinate apples...just 8.
EDIT: damn it, ninjad by cakes....
