I still disagree with the x/0 = infinity thing. I mean, if you divide something by infinity, do you get 0? Of course not, you get something technically above 0, but never actually touching the 0 line.
And yeah, technically, it's impossible to divide something by 0. Dividing by 0 is like destroying energy. The only way to do so would be to send it into a 5th dimension (assuming the 4th is time).
Therefore, if any of you have read that thingy I wrote about magic being a transdimensional form of energy... division by 0 (or infinity) can only be done with the help of magic.
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Actually, if you divide 0 by infinity, you'll get 0.
I do have proof that X/0 (assuming X<>0) = infinity.
On a graphing calculator, type in Y=(any value here)/X.
Look at the graph. If the (any value here) is positive, when X =0, it'll go directly down forever into -infinity and then warp to +infinity. If (any value here) is negative, it's the other way around.
It's called an asymptote. It will never equal anything at X=0.
If you divide 0 by ANY NUMBER, you'll get nothing because you had nothing to start with. If you divide any non-zero number by 0, you're trying to turn something into nothing (see Muz's point).
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I know It's too late for this but - quote " You see, when you take a cookie and sacrifice it to um... the essence of the universe which completely absorbs it and divides into an infinite amount of unimaginable beings, you are left with no cookies" /quote.
"Say you're hanging from a huge cliff at the top of mt. everest and a guy comes along and says he'll save you, and proceeds to throw religious pamphlets at you while simultaniously giving a sermon." - Dustin G
Giving math examples with real life things doesn't always seem to work. Few examples:
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There is no such thing as having -7 cookies.
Teacher:"If I lay five eggs on the table and you lay two eggs next to them, how many eggs do you have?"
Kid:"Still five eggs, because I can't lay any eggs"
If there is one cookie and there is 1/2 people which want a cookie, they get nothing and still one cookie remains, because there's 50% chance that the head is with the halved dude instead of the other half, and even if the head is on that halved dude I don't think he can eat it. Ever seen a halved dude eating a cookie?
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Err I think you don't see my point. Anyway it's safe to divide by zero in MMF because that simply returns zero. It's actually not allowed but returning ERROR gives a mixed strings/numbers error leaving another error which can't be displayed and returns another ERROR which gives you an INFINITE loop. Until the program crashes.
Conclusion: Division by zero is infinity and there's nothing you can do about it.
wow this turned out to be a very long string of posts didn't it?
i like Mr Coffee's point
you never really know whether it has a value or not, its left up to what you want it to be in your mind, this whole thing is just a long line of opinions really
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