Why can't we divide by 0?

We can. It gives infinitymmogoon

nope... as the denomonator APPROACHES zero, the result approaches infinity... but never gets there, cuz ya can't actually ever get to zero in the denominator... but it can be useful to exclude other solutions.. 

[QUOTE="mmogoon"]We can. It gives infinityFragStains

[QUOTE="mmogoon"]We can. It gives infinityTrueReligion_

this is why.Hewkii

[QUOTE="Hewkii"]this is why.0757691

It is possible to disguise a special case of division by zero in an algebraic argument, leading to spurious proofs that 2 = 1 such as the following: With the following assumptions: The following must be true: Dividing by zero gives: Simplified, yields: 1 = 2

I don't get it. We can multiply by zero, add zero, substract zero, make a number to the power of zero, square root zero, find a sin/cos/tan of zero but we can't devide by zero. Why?ZealotTheAloof

0 can't go into anything. It just can't be done.Greatgone12

you can divide zero things (x) into multiple groups but you cant take x things and put them into zero groups and thus you cant divide by zero.

you can add zero and add to is. you can also remove zero from x and remove x from zero (well not physically)

you can also have zero groups of x and x groups of zero

because it will create a hardware exception.

EDIT: holy crap i just realized this thread is hella old.

because it will create a hardware exception.

EDIT: holy crap i just realized this thread is hella old.

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