Comments on: Be brave, go ahead and divide by zero

By: karl t. axe

karl t. axe — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:55:42 +0000

i used an infinity symbol in my post above, but i guess it’s just displaying as a question mark…

By: karl t. axe

karl t. axe — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:54:24 +0000

re: 1/0=?, i had a similar thought when i was in university. i asked a math professor about it, but he disagreed with me. this article made me feel rather vindicated!

as an afterthought, if we reverse the equation, we get 0(?)=1…

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:56:09 +0000

In response to Talon. 0 to power 0 would equal 1 in my guess because any number to the power 0 equals 1. GREAT ARTICLE!!!!!

By: brent

brent — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:18:05 +0000

For the 0^0 question. We can represent that as (0^a)/(0^a) leaving us back at square one, dividing by zero.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:12:37 +0000

goto youtube and type Dont Divide by Zero you find a whole bunch of funny pics

By: Ethan

Ethan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:43:08 +0000

[Mom is talking about a different photo than the one that's up there now, which showed water spiraling elegantly into a hole. That image was more aesthetic but this one is funnier.]

By: Karen Hein

Karen Hein — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:02:24 +0000

I just knitted (in wire) a version of this photo…I knitted a spider web from 28 guage wire and was playing around with it—pushing the center and splaying the outer edges, and voila, I (more or less) had a version of this photo of water “dividing by zero!” I’ll try to take photos or show you when I see you, Ethan.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:33:57 +0000

Wikipedia has a whole article devoted to that question. It depends on your philosophy of math whether the answer is one or undefined.

By: Talon

Talon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:53:46 +0000

What happens when zero is put to the power of zero? 0^0