1 Divided by zero

should 1 divided by zero=infinity? because nothingness can fit into somethingness an infinit number of times correct?

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1 divided by 0 is undefined.

The answer depends on the sort of math your doing. In your everyday experience it's simply undefined, if you ever go into higher mathematics there are a ways of defining what the answer is but these involve things like taking a number and psuedodividing it by its psuedoinverse.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
The answer depends on the sort of math your doing. In your everyday experience it's simply undefined, if you ever go into higher mathematics there are a ways of defining what the answer is but these involve things like taking a number and psuedodividing it by its psuedoinverse.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
The answer depends on the sort of math your doing. In your everyday experience it's simply undefined, if you ever go into higher mathematics there are a ways of defining what the answer is but these involve things like taking a number and psuedodividing it by its psuedoinverse.

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
yes, so by doing that you get infinity?

im assuming a(1) reality has infinit space,
so basically "1" can contain infinity

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
yes, so by doing that you get infinity?

No, the answers vary. In linear algebra the answer happens to be zero.

That's probably the closest you'll get to anything supporting your point. However, to be clear about this, that is NOT the same thing as 1/0=infinity.

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
because nothingness can fit into somethingness

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Originally posted by shiv
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How is it you have taken such a supposedly advanced astronomy class, but haven't taken calculus?

Originally posted by King Kandy
How is it you have taken such a supposedly advanced astronomy class, but haven't taken calculus?

Then why are you asking this question, half the stuff you do in derivative based calculus is figuring out how to compute divide by zero problems.

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
Explain

You can't divide by zero,there is no way.

Originally posted by The Butcher
You can't divide by zero,there is no way.

The useless cases some people make are ridiculous. Essentially it's our verbiage enabling philosophical discussion.

If
x/0 = ∞
then
x/∞ = 0
and then 0*∞=x

But x is any number.

So what the ****?

That's because both 1/0 and 0*∞ are undefined values, as explained. So no, nothing in that equation works.