a number divided by itself is always 1

yes it is

is zero a number though?

My Calculater just says error
fail troll

Anything divided by 0 is always undefined.

>>46918115
Yes, a very important one

>>46918034
>>46918034

That is true, but zero is not a number so the answer is a) 0
Seems some here are not as bright as they think.

The answer is undefined, you retard.
Any other response gives you a non-abelian group defined over the reals.
Since the reals ARE an abelian group, the answer is undefined.

What's zero to the power of zero?

wouldn't the answer just be ZERO

Undefined, OP. You think you're smarter than you are.

undetermined

undefined

ect...

>>46918195
1

>>46918124
>Implying calculators are infallible

>>46918167
No, zero is a concept, not a number.

>>46918034
Not always. The opposite operation of division is multiplication. IE

12/4= 3 and 4 * 3 is 12

But that doesn't quite work for 0/0

0/0 = 1 0*1 = 0 Sure. But 0 * 2 or 3 or 17 or -583769756 also works. Hence it's undefined. Not 1. Not 0. Not "infinity". Undefined.

any real number

anyone who says the answer is undefined really doesn't understand what undefined means!

1

You cant divide by zero

Undefined

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>>46918034
Everything after is a troll

take 0 ÷ 0 = 0
multiply 0 both sides

0 = 0 x 0
sounds right

the answer is 0

>>46918274
Every number is a concept.

>>46918195
Undefined

Does anyone know what fucking division even is? Since you're retarded I'll explain it to you. Let's say you have 5/3. Five is the cup, and 3 is the bean. We're trying to see how many times we can put a bean that is 3 big into a cup that is 5 big. Now take 5/0. How many nothing beans can we fit into a cup that's 5 big? It exists outside the confines of logic that define the question, and seeing anyone trying to put nothings into a cup is fucking hilarious.

>>46918034
zero's not a number

It's undefined.

If you disagree you're wrong.

Also sage'd and reported, math is not a video game.

>>46918034

except it's nothing, so "it" can't have a self if there's nothing there.

undefined hurrdurr

You cannot divide by zero. Never. It's the definition of the function.

Even when limits are involved, it's still not a division by zero, but by a very small number.

>>46918329
Agreed. I learned that x / x is always 1 in middle school. That's why we can substitute that expression out in algebra. If it was any other number but 1, we couldn't do that could we?

>>46918429

How many nothings fit into a cup the size of nothing?

1

Undefined, because it can be either 0 or 1.

>>46918274
our number system is a concept

>>46918545
How can you have a cup of nothing

God fucking dammit, every 12 year old thinks he's so boss with his divide-by-zero postulations. You cannot divide something such that it will exist no longer.

>>46918583

It's a math question.

>>46918274
1 is also a concept, and by induction every number is a concept

it's A, B, and C. that's why you can't do limits with 0/0 as an expression. you have to rewrite the limit before you do. i forget what it's called though

>>46918545
Nothing is not an amount it cannot be put into a cup.

it's indeterminate, not undefined


faggots

>the answer is not undefined

back to gradeschool with you

>>46918526

It's undefined. anything divided by 0 is undefined.
0 is a special case. i'm not trolling. i am a teacher.

guys he said it wasn't undefined, stop guessing it

oh shi

if you have no beans, and you don't divide them, it's still zero

THE ANSWER IS INFINITY BECAUSE YOU CAN KEEP PUTTING ZERO INTO ZERO AND BE ABLE TO FIT MORE ZEROES INTO THE ORIGINAL ZERO

>MY FACE WHEN I HAVE COMPLETELY SCHOOLED ALL OF YOU FAGGOTS

NOTHING FROM NOTHING LEAVES NOTHING

0/0=x

x(0)=0

x = All real numbers

Eat shit and die OP.

E

>>46918545

And I suppose you think you can split nothing into no parts?

>>46918545
As many as you'd like? No matter how much nothing you put in, there's still going to be more nothing.

jesus christ, i remember trolling /b/ with math problems all the time. this one was my favorite.

x = 13

>>46918558
A concept made up of definable quantities.
Zero is not definable and therefore not a number.

>>46918659

This would imply that nothing cannot be measured, which indicated that it doesn't exist.

However it does exist, it's just so microsopically small.

I say B

GO BANANA

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the answer?

the world ends

you cant divide anything by zero.

not even zero.

Logically it would seem like 1, but that's not how zero works.

>>46918803
Define them.

>>46918699
>>46918652
HIVEMIND

these are the correct answers

/v/ - Science, Math, and Video Games

Think of this in terms of the definition of division. A divided by B
means: How many times must you subtract B from A to reach zero?

For A divided by zero, where A is any number except zero, the number is
not even infinity, because infinity itself is not big enough. No matter
how many times you subtract zero from, say, five, you will never, ever
reach zero. So even infinity is not big enough to be 5/0.

What does this tell us about zero divided by zero? Well, how many times
must you subtract zero from zero in order to reach zero?

Zero times? Sure. That works.
One time? That works too.
Two times? Yes. If you subtract zero from zero twice, the result is
zero.
Pi times? Again, if you subtract pi zeroes from zero, the result is
zero.

We can do this with ANY NUMBER THERE IS, even zero. So, zero divided by
zero is truly a special way to define a number. The answer can be
infinity, or it can be zero, or absolutely anything else. All numbers
satisfy the operation.

>if you finished grade school
i'm a sixth grade drop out and what is this

>>46918800
actually -13

There is no answer. That operation is invalid. So it's none of them.

But think about this:
x/0 = -infinity for all x less than zero, +infinity for all x greater
than zero.

Also, 0/x = 0 for all x except x exactly zero, and
x/x = 1 for all x.

>>46918731
This is the only true answer.

The answer IS "undefined". Derp.

>>46918872
One is one.
Two is two.
Zero is nothing. It's a non-existent quantity. You can't hold zero beans in your hand. You can hold no beans in your hand but that's not the same as holding zero beans.

>>46919013
Plug it in.

My high school math teacher said

"If you divide by 0, you go to math hell"

>>46918940

>-13
>Ended up with -x somehow

NOT

VIDEO

GAMES

>>46918804

i think we all know what the answer is

>>46919013
how the fuck did you get 2x in the second line

>>46919056

>>46918652
>Implying a number that APPROACHES to 0 is the same as 0.

Oh, look.

Division by zero and the common fallacy based on the implicit assumption that dividing by zero is a legitimate operation.

Woooh, fuck you guys, go learn maths.

Jesus fuck, what are you idiots doing? Stop trying to divide by zero, you'll fucking destroy us all!

>>46919013
x-7=19+x

13-7=19+13?
6=32?

>>46918885
Oh boy, let me fix this for you

>/v/ - Science, Math

>>46919013

>implying x-x = 2x

>>46919119

I pulled it out of my ass. That's the joke.

>>46918001
Successful troll is highly successful