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Re: What is zero divided by zero anyway?

by petral (Curate)
on Oct 07, 2002 at 23:37 UTC ( [id://203530]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to What is zero divided by zero anyway?

    Zero divided by zero is zero.

    -   Brahmagupta, (who discovered zero in the first place)

This would be consistent with 0/n for all other n, which I suppose is as good as being consistent with n/n for all other n.   (But "zero" later explorers followed him in this. :-) )

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