Poll: Can YOU divide by zero?

[Kenjitsuka]

I picked "Yes, Chuck Norris taught me that".
You would be honestly really surprised how simple stuff gets when Chuck Norris explains it to you!

I'm sure MIT, Harvard and Yale will be fighting tooth and nail any minute now about who gets to make him an honorary professor first!!!

 

[DazBurger]

0 divided by 0 = C?

 

[Halceon]

Yes, but it depends on the function given. If it's y=1/x, then you can't divide by zero because the limits coming from either side of the graph don't equal each other:

Lim
x-->0+ (1/x) = ∞

Lim
x-->0- (1/x) = -∞

However if you take y=1/(x^2), then you can take the limit because the limits are both the same. In this case dividing by zero will give you infinity. If you take calculus you'd understand this a bit better.

Lim
x-->0+ (1/(x^2)) = ∞

Lim
x-->0- (1/(x^2)) = ∞

This needs to be seen again and again.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I never understood why you couldn't divide zero by zero. You're dividing nothing into no parts so you have nothing. Right? But no it doesn't work that way. Phooie...

 

[Spencer Petersen]

If you want to overthink it, you can apply L'Hopital's rule to it if the 0 is represented as a limit.

IE lim x->10 for (x/(10-x)

In common math it would mean 10/0, unsolvable, but L'Hopital's rule means that you may represent each function as its derivative, x becomes 1, 10-x becomes -1, so the answer is -1.

/mind blown

 

[SinisterGehe]

Logically you can, let me give you philosophical example.
In each room we have 5 people, each room gets a bread to be equally shared. In one room there is no-one inside but thew room also gets a bread. So we have a room with no-one inside and the bread inside needs to be shared by everyone. so 1 bread / 0 people... 1/0=1 then ^^. Ofc this doesn't follow the rules of real theoretical math.

 

[SuperCombustion]

and tear a hole in the universe? ARE YOU KIDDING?!

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

I tried to once. But my paper burst into flames. So, no. No I can't.

 

[lacktheknack]

You can divide by zero easily enough. Can you get a result?

No. 1/0 != infinite. Infinite groups of 0 = 0, not 1.

Can you? Yes. Will you get an answer? No.

Should you try?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Ku6SPRq8054/TGnWBQfBKJI/AAAAAAAAAvM/5bwQGaKCneo/s1600/divided+by+zero.jpg

 

[randomsix]

Yep, i can, it's just gives you the numeric value of "infinity".

This. You can divide by zero and infinity[footnote]Using limits.[/footnote]. What you can't do is divide zero by zero, or infinity by infinity.

That's because infinity isn't a number so division is not defined over it.

 

[lacktheknack]

I get infinity.

So the dividing by zero meme is irrelevent and Chuck Norris isn't fucking funny.
BAM.

How did you get infinite?

0 x infinite = 0.

You can't have infinite groups of zero equal anything greater or less than zero. Thus, the meme still works.

Although Chuck Norris isn't funny, correct.

 

[Evil the White]

Through all of my education, I've always been told that I can't divide by zero, but my question is: can YOU?

As a maths student, this is the official answer:

1 divided by 0 = infinity.
Infinity times 0 = 1

 

[lacktheknack]

I can

0/0=1
its not that hard

You did it wrong.

0/0 = (-infinite, infinite). Or maybe (-infinite, 0) cup (0, infinite) if you're anal retentive.

 

[Jamboxdotcom]

infinty x 0=-1
it's true it is provable using negative reciprocals
1 x (-1/1)=-1
2 x (-1/2)=-1
3 x (-1/3)=-1
...
infinty x (-1/infinity)=-1
1/infinty = 0 because the larger a number is you divide by the smaller your answer
-0=0 (well duh)
so infinity x 0 =-1

Infinity isn't a number. Its a concept for a never ending number.

this.

 

[gabe12301]

I will try 100/0 equals...ERROR ERROR ERROR *Head explodes*

 

[Novania]

Yay calculus!

 

[Zorg Machine]

if you have 5 apples and you give them to zero people, how many apples does each person have.
The answer doesn't exist as there are no people.

 

[Snarky Username]

You can take the limit as x approaches 0 to get an approximation, but never actually divide by 0. Without ending our universe, anyways.