Wycombe Royal So if when you were at school you were taught that the earth was flat would you still believe that, even though it had been proved otherwise?
Just because you were taught something at school (and that was a lot longer ago than nearly everyone on here) it doesn't mean that what you were taught is still correct.
I've explained myself. Don't need to explain it again.
Division by zero is the operation of taking the quotient of any number x and 0, i.e., x/0.
The uniqueness of division breaks down when dividing by zero, since the product 0·y=0 is the same for any y,
so y cannot be recovered by inverting the process of multiplication. 0 is the only number with this property
and, as a result, division by zero is undefined for real numbers and can produce a fatal condition called
a "division by zero error" in computer programs.
To the persistent but misguided reader who insists on asking "What happens if I do divide by zero,"
Derbyshire (2004, p. 36) provides the slightly flippant but firm and concise response, "You can't.
It's against the rules." Even in fields other than the real numbers, division by zero is never allowed (Derbyshire 2004, p. 266).
There are, however, contexts in which division by zero can be considered as defined. For example, division by zero z/0 for z in C^*!=0 in the extended complex plane C-* is defined to be a quantity known as complex infinity. This definition expresses the fact that, for z!=0, lim_(w->0)z/w=infty (i.e., complex infinity).
However, even though the formal statement 1/0=infty is permitted in C-*,
note that this does not mean that 1=0·infinity. Zero does not have a multiplicative inverse under any circumstances.
Although division by zero is not defined for reals,
limits involving division by a real quantity x which approaches zero may in fact be well-defined. For example,
lim_(x->0)(sinx)/x=1.
Of course, such limits may also approach infinity,lim_(x->0^+)1/x=infty.
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