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Originally Posted by 400poundgorilla
This has always bugged me, but I've come to accept it just like the rest of us. Division by zero is "undefined." You have to love math. Why is it that there CAN be an answer for multiplying by zero, but not dividing? Just HOW do you multiply by ZERO in the literal sense? It makes no more sense than DIVIDING by zero. If we can use such a wild notion as multiplying by zero to come up with fantastic science, why not dividing by zero as well? With all these great minds, can't someone come up with a definition that works? :blink:
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I don't find multiplication by zero to be wild notation at all. If you sell bags of potatoes for five Euros each, and you sell zero bags today, what were your revenues?
That's multiplication by zero. Now let's see if we can divide by it. Suppose you sold zero bags of potatoes, and your revenues were zero Euros. From this information, can you divide zero by zero to calculate what price you must be charging?