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What would happen to you if you tried to divide by O? Nt (Original Post) raccoon Sep 2013 OP
Nothing. In_The_Wind Sep 2013 #1
You implode into a black hole and are never seen again. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2013 #2
I was afraid it was something like that. That, or the Rapture. nt raccoon Sep 2013 #4
I believe it is a misdemeanor in most municipalities phantom power Sep 2013 #3
O like Oprah? Or O like "O-face"? NYC_SKP Sep 2013 #5
I've heard you get one of these... Major Nikon Sep 2013 #6
Undefined nt Xipe Totec Sep 2013 #7
A modern system will give you a Divide by Zero Exception PrestonLocke Sep 2013 #8
ReferenceError: O is not defined Make7 Sep 2013 #9
You would divide by 24 jakeXT Sep 2013 #10
Try it and find out. It's no big mystery. x/y is just how many times you (starting with x) struggle4progress Sep 2013 #11
Expect a visit from the galaxy pizza makers. RedCloud Sep 2013 #12
I divide by dx every day, which is almost indistinguishable from 0 Recursion Sep 2013 #13
According to a math teacher I once had, I'd get arrested by the math police. UrbScotty Sep 2013 #14
!!! MiddleFingerMom Sep 2013 #15

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
11. Try it and find out. It's no big mystery. x/y is just how many times you (starting with x)
Mon Sep 9, 2013, 11:25 PM
Sep 2013

need to subtract y before you get to 0

Example: Compute 12/3
12 - 3 = 9
9 - 3 = 6
6 - 3 = 3
3 - 3 = 0
so 12/3 = 4

Example. Compute 2/1
2 - 1 = 1
1 - 1 = 0
so 2/1 = 2

Your turn. Compute 1/0.
Reminder: just start with 1 and keep subtracting 0 until nothing is left
Then count how many times you subtracted and tell us the result

RedCloud

(9,230 posts)
12. Expect a visit from the galaxy pizza makers.
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 11:42 AM
Sep 2013

Obviously zero to zero = one. You have nothing, you do nothing to it, you wind up with something.

That means that while there is only nothing, the only thing that can ever happen is something.

Now the Mayans said adiós in a few octillion years. Astrophysicists say the universe will die an expanded death in a few octillion years.
But it will be stretched flat, like a pizza (may words there).

I say trillions of universes will be streched flat like pizzas, all toward a central oven, or is it trillions of central ovens?

But we are all just flukes of the universe.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
13. I divide by dx every day, which is almost indistinguishable from 0
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 12:00 PM
Sep 2013

Most of the time you get infinity, unless you're also dividing into 0; the answer to 0 / 0 is what the Calculus is about.

UrbScotty

(23,980 posts)
14. According to a math teacher I once had, I'd get arrested by the math police.
Tue Sep 10, 2013, 12:16 PM
Sep 2013

But since I'm white, I don't expect that I'd get more than a slap on the wrist.

Then again, I'm not rich - so maybe I would get a ticket.

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