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Originally Posted by Merkin Muffley
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?
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Yes, I think that is the perfect way to put it. Real examples often make things easier to understand. Or for example, if you have zero cakes, how much does it cost? Obviously zero. Now, if you want to cut a cake into zero pieces, how big will each piece be?