Professor finds a way to divide by zero

#1 01-14-2007, 01:42 AM

Professor discovers method to divide by Zero, the age old problem that
even Pythagoras couldn't solve....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/conte..._feature.shtml

#2 01-14-2007, 01:42 AM

So from what I understand when you divide by zero you get the new
number, nullity - right? It was so simple I kind of got mixed up.

#3 01-14-2007, 01:42 AM

He basically made a new number. The reason why is that computers will
crash if a program tries to divide by zero. It's similar to the
imaginary number. An imaginary number is the square root of a negative
number, for example (SQRT[-1]). Imaginary numbers, when they were
defined, didn't have a useful application.

Now Imaginary numbers are used in Electrical Engineering to calculate
frequency responses and impedances of circuits. They are used in
Physics too.
Luke Flyswatter wrote:
> So from what I understand when you divide by zero you get the new
> number, nullity - right? It was so simple I kind of got mixed up.

#4 01-14-2007, 01:42 AM

I wondered what they were doing with imaginary numbers. I'm glad they
found some use for them. I was going to go into electrical engineering
until I found out the GPA you had to keep to stay in the field. B or
above for almost every class. At UMR a B was like an A+ at a community
college.

#5 01-14-2007, 01:42 AM

"Kane" <cain_roenor@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1165509381.947747.139010@73g2000cwn.googlegro ups.com...
> Professor discovers method to divide by Zero, the age old problem that
> even Pythagoras couldn't solve....
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/conte..._feature.shtml
>

I my Hardware always used to Progress
I found first error with any programs due to size expansion
was Divide By Zero

So Sometimes I could Crack it with a NOP on the Divide
NO Operation Hex Code 90 Assembly Lang Mnemonic
Just Missing Little Info About Some Size free space or Odd

I had To Use CodeView Real Time Disassembly Coz Programs Already Compiled in
EXE not Written By Me No Source

Roids Round Zero

#6 01-14-2007, 01:42 AM

You could always divide by zero. Divide anything by zero and you
get infinity. Divide zero by zero and you get one. Divide anything by
infinity and you get zero. Divide zero by zero and you get one. The
reciprocal of infinity is zero. A number multiplied times it's
reciprocal is always one. Zero is the omnipresent infinitesimal point
nothingness. Infinity is the infinite circumference that is nowhere
found. The White Right Hand Path Egyptians represented these impersonals
by Nuit, infinity, Hadit (Hades), the infinitesimal point nothinngness,
and the interaction between this couple, Ra Hoor Khuit, the falcon on
the Zimbabwean flag. The Black Left Hand Path Egyptians personified
these following "antiheros" against the "whitelighters": Bez, the
infinitesimal point nothingness that is the singularity of every black
hole; Apophrasz Ra, infinity, and their interaction, Grub. Ia Besz, Ia
Grub, Ia Apophrasz Ra; Katahari, may Horus (Hoor, Hari, Hero) fall
(kata). These aren't entities. These are properties and relationships.
The objective impersonal becomes pesonalized as the subjective
personality becomes impersonalized. Random sounds become voices, and we
see faces in the clouds. Our, so called, "schizophrenia" is caused by
having our subjective personaity impersonaized, but the personalized
objective impersonal can be bargained with so it, they, can do things
for us that seem impossible to those who impersonalize our subjective
persoanlity; and that's why, before psychaiatry we were called
"witches". Psychiatry is just the modern Holy Inquisition.

#7 01-14-2007, 01:42 AM

Kane wrote:
> He basically made a new number. The reason why is that computers will
> crash if a program tries to divide by zero.

Actually, there has been a standard for a while that defines how to
divide floating-point computer numbers by zero. There are two possible
results of dividing by zero: 'NaN' which stands for "Not a Number" and
"Inf" which stands for Infinity.

According to the IEEE standard,
1 / 0 = Inf,
and
0 / 0 or Inf / 0 or NaN / 0 are all equal to NaN.

#8 01-14-2007, 01:42 AM

Miguel Lahunkun wrote:
> You could always divide by zero. Divide anything by zero and you
> get infinity. Divide zero by zero and you get one. Divide anything by
> infinity and you get zero. Divide zero by zero and you get one. The
> reciprocal of infinity is zero. A number multiplied times it's
> reciprocal is always one. Zero is the omnipresent infinitesimal point
> nothingness. Infinity is the infinite circumference that is nowhere
> found. The White Right Hand Path Egyptians represented these impersonals
> by Nuit, infinity, Hadit (Hades), the infinitesimal point nothinngness,
> and the interaction between this couple, Ra Hoor Khuit, the falcon on
> the Zimbabwean flag. The Black Left Hand Path Egyptians personified
> these following "antiheros" against the "whitelighters": Bez, the
> infinitesimal point nothingness that is the singularity of every black
> hole; Apophrasz Ra, infinity, and their interaction, Grub. Ia Besz, Ia
> Grub, Ia Apophrasz Ra; Katahari, may Horus (Hoor, Hari, Hero) fall
> (kata). These aren't entities. These are properties and relationships.
> The objective impersonal becomes pesonalized as the subjective
> personality becomes impersonalized. Random sounds become voices, and we
> see faces in the clouds. Our, so called, "schizophrenia" is caused by
> having our subjective personaity impersonaized, but the personalized
> objective impersonal can be bargained with so it, they, can do things
> for us that seem impossible to those who impersonalize our subjective
> persoanlity; and that's why, before psychaiatry we were called
> "witches". Psychiatry is just the modern Holy Inquisition.

Thats heavy