Wierd Idea on Zero

[magicjubin]

If you had the problem 0 / 0 (zero divided by zero) Would the answer be All Reals, No Solution, Undefined, Or something else?

If you took the word problem it would be something like this.
There were 0 apples and 0 people got 0 apples. Therefore would the answer would be all reals (infinite solutions)?

If there were 15 apples and 0 people got 15 apples it would look like
15 / 0
If you multiplied both sides by 0 you would get 15 = 0
Which would be No solutions

But if there were 0 apples and 15 people
0 / 15
You would have 0 = 15
But in real world terms all it would mean is that nobody got apples, therefore the answer would be all reals.

So if you put
Infinite Solution / No solutions
What would you get?

[demonkid]

arggh.... tOo mUch tHinking!!! ,,, Head explodes
english and maths together arrgh too much for my head l0l
well gotta admit that its kind undefined but i kinda don't know why that is :P
well lets keep it at undefined

[Raiyne]

Interesting idea. Its similar to the X = X + Y thingy I questioned in my other thread.

http://www.onrpg.com/boards/65219.html

I think there is a flaw in there somewhere, because you can't exactly divide by zero, anything divided by zero automatically becomes screwed up. o_O

I don't really get what you mean by solutions though.

[wwenbo]

There is stuff on wikipedia about dividing by zero and 0/0.

[TheRequiem]

If you had the problem 0 / 0 (zero divided by zero) Would the answer be All Reals, No Solution, Undefined, Or something else?

If you took the word problem it would be something like this.
There were 0 apples and 0 people got 0 apples. Therefore would the answer would be all reals (infinite solutions)?

If there were 15 apples and 0 people got 15 apples it would look like
15 / 0
If you multiplied both sides by 0 you would get 15 = 0
Which would be No solutions

But if there were 0 apples and 15 people
0 / 15
You would have 0 = 15
But in real world terms all it would mean is that nobody got apples, therefore the answer would be all reals.

So if you put
Infinite Solution / No solutions
What would you get?

That just means noone gets the ****ing apples.

Just think of None when doing these things.

[Slade]

Black holes ahoy!

Anyways, some dickhead math professor decided he'd just invent a new number that comes out of dividing zero by zero. I heard this a while back. It's got to be the stupidest thing ever because he has like zero proof as to why it should be :\.

[TheRequiem]

Black holes ahoy!

Anyways, some dickhead math professor decided he'd just invent a new number that comes out of dividing zero by zero. I heard this a while back. It's got to be the stupidest thing ever because he has like zero proof as to why it should be :\.

It would be impossible because it would just **** up what we've been learning since 1st grade.