Does anyone know what 0 divided by 0 is? It's one of those philosophical questions which I tend to overthink for! My Maths teacher was sure it was 1, but how can that be?
Does anyone know what 0 divided by 0 is? It's one of those philosophical questions which I tend to overthink for! My Maths teacher was sure it was 1, but how can that be?
1 = 0/0 = (2*0)/0 = 2*(0/0) = 2*1 = 2
If you try and make 0/0 equal to a number then this leads to contradictions like the one above.
In almost all cases (unless perhaps you're using some unusual number system), 0/0 is undefined.
Does anyone know what 0 divided by 0 is? It's one of those philosophical questions which I tend to overthink for! My Maths teacher was sure it was 1, but how can that be?
This is not a philosophical question, it is a mathemtaical one and the answer is that it doesn't even make sense since division os not defined for denominator being 0. It's like asking what table tot he power of grape fruit is, it just doesn't make sense to even talk about it.
When you consider them as limits, then yes (because they can be anytrhing, including undefined), but when considered as elements of the extended real line (as used in measure theory) they are as I said.