What happens if you try to divide a number by 0?

Answer 1

This operation is not defined.

Infinity is NOT the result. Dividing a number by 0 is not like dividing it by an infinitesimal. There is no reasonable result.

Answer 2

Just look at what happens when you divide by a very small number:

Let d1 = 0.0001 then 1/d1 = 10,000

take d2 = d1/100, then 1/d2 = 100*10,000 = 1 million

as d gets smaller and smaller 1/d gets larger and larger.

In fact, if you give my any large finite number M then I can find a d such 1/d > M. This is mathematically what is meant when we say that 1/d is unbounded as d -> 0 or the limit as x->0 of 1/x is infinite. Infinitity is not a number, it is used to reflect the above property of unboundedness.

Answer 3

Nothing can be divided by 0.

Answer 4

something divide by 0 is infinity
like
ex-
1/.1=10
1/.01=100
1/.001=1000
1/.0000000001=1000000000
as your divider tends to 0
the final value tends to infinity

but if 0/0= is not define
it is not defined any how

Answer 5

Nothing. You cannot divide by zero. its mathematically impossible.

Answer 6

you can't. How can you take something and divide it into zero parts? Doesn't work.

Answer 7

you can find the limit of it. When you try to graph it, it makes an asymptote, so it's there, but doesn't really exist, which is what the study of limits is.
the y=tan(x) graph is the most simplest kind of this.

Answer 8

the answer is 0

Answer 9

You do not get zero, you get an error because it cannot be done.

Answer 10

You go to infinity. You go directly to infinity. You do not pass go, you do not collect $200.