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[โ€“] wischi@programming.dev 66 points 4 months ago (3 children)

0/0 is undefined because everything would be a valid result. 0/0 is basically finding solutions for 0*x=0 and everything you put into x would satisfy the equation.

[โ€“] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

This doesn't clearly identify a problem IMO. Division by a number is defined as multiplication by the multiplicative inverse, and 0 has no multiplicative inverse because 0x = 1 has no solutions.

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