Zero divided by zero is not zero?

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Can someone explain this?

I mean, Imagine you have 0 cookies, and 0 people to share with. How many cookies will each person get? Zero, because you have no cookies and no people.

Avatar of BishopTakesH7

It's undefined since, for example(from Wikipedia):

 

6/3 = 2

 

And the opposite with multiplication to check the answer:

 

? * 3 = 6

 

So we know the answer to this is the "?" is 2.

 

But if you have for example, 6/0, then the new equation to check with multiplication makes no sense.

 

? * 0 = 6

 

Anything times 0 is 0(and not 6) so we can never solve for "?", so there is no solution, meaning 6/0 or anything divided by 0 is undefined.

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And also if you had 0/0 the multiplication equation would be:

 

? * 0 = 0

 

There should only be 1 solution for "?", but now every number works, so this is still undefined.

Avatar of snoozyman
I’m getting an error…
Avatar of Jelau22
0 / 0 = 0, because 0 x 0 = 0
Avatar of M1m1c15
Division is different from multiplication, and there isn’t an answer because 0 isn’t a number, it’s a place holder so nothing can go into it, it’s much more complicated than you think and there isn’t an answer currently