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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.


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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.


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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.
yes, so by doing that you get infinity?


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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.

You can define it, but only if it's attached to a function of some sort... just a straight out 1/0 is always undefined.


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yes, so by doing that you get infinity?

No, you typically get some mundane number like 3/4 or 0 if you define it using calculus. It depends on what function it's part of.


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


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yes, so by doing that you get infinity?


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


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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.


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Re: 1 Divided by zero

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because nothingness can fit into somethingness

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no

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Re: Re: 1 Divided by zero

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no
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How is it you have taken such a supposedly advanced astronomy class, but haven't taken calculus?


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How is it you have taken such a supposedly advanced astronomy class, but haven't taken calculus?
i took it and im telling you im Lucky i some how passed.....


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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.


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

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You can't divide by zero,there is no way.
you missed the whole point smile


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


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

But x is any number.

So what the ****?


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


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