why is zero divided by any number not define?

Question

mathematic question

Answer 1

because zero is nothing. try dividing nothing sometime and tell me if it works

Answer 2

You may mean the other way around. Zero divided by a non-zero number is zero and thus very well defined.

Dividing by zero is a problem. Keep in mind that a number divided by a second number equaling a third number is the same as the first number equaling the product of the second and third numbers. Let N be any non-zero number. Dividing by zero is thus

N / 0 = A

where A is the resulting answer. This would be the same as

A * 0 = N

However, anything times zero is zero, and N is not zero, so there's a contradiction, which means the answer is not defined.

Now suppose N is zero, then

0 / 0 = A means A * 0 = 0

Not a problem, until you realise that A can be ANY number. Thus that is not defined as well.

Hope that answers your question.

Answer 3

In mathematics, a division is called a division by zero if the divisor is zero. Such a division can be formally expressed as where a is the dividend. Whether this expression can be assigned a meaningful (well-defined) value depends upon the mathematical setting. In ordinary (real number) arithmetic, the expression has no meaning.
Integer division by zero is usually handled differently from floating point since there is no integer representation for the result. Some processors generate an exception when an attempt is made to divide an integer by zero, although others will simply continue and generate an incorrect result for the division (often 0).

hope now u can understand....

Answer 4

First of all zero divided by any number is zero, but
Any number divided by zero is said to be undefined.
The reason :
division can be seen to be repeated subtraction just as multiplication is repeated addition.
e.g. 2+2+2+2= 8 and 2*4=8
similarly 8/2=4, and 8-2=6, 6-2=4,4-2=2,2-2=0, so answer is 4.(since it took 4 steps to get to zero)
if you can understand this, then try to visualize what we say when we divide by zero. Let's say 8/0
then for the answer,
8-0=8,8-0=8,8-0=8,8-0=8........and so on. So to continue is meaningless and hence it is said to be undefined.

Answer 5

This question isn't entirely clear, but...

Zero divided by any number is clearly zero: 0/2 = zero halves.

Any number divided by zero is infinitely large, and therefore cannot be defined.

Answer 6

Lemme see if I have the proper explanation for this...

Zero is "nothing", right?

If you add or subtract zero, (nothing) to a number, you still have the original number.
If you multiply a number by zero, (nothing), you have zero, or nothing.

But you can't divide a number by "nothing", because the answer cannot be defined, or explained using rational thinking.

Hope that made sense.

Answer 7

zerc divided by anything is zero but anything divided by zero is not defined....... ex. 1/0=0 this implies 1=0 which is not possible

Answer 8

Think of it as approaching infinity. Take a number and divide it by a very small number like 0.00001 and you get a really large number. The smaller the number you divide by (or as you approach deviding by zero) the results gets larger and larger and eventually approaches infinity.

Answer 9

its any number divided by zero is not defines because u cant divide something by nothing.

Answer 10

Think about it this way.

If 0 divided by say, 4, the answer would be 0, right?

However, if 0 is multiplied by 0, that doesn't equal 4.

Answer 11

Think of it like this: you have three balls, and then you decide to divide them by zero. By doing that, you're saying that the balls never existed, which is not true since they're in front of you.