• fdrake
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    What about division by 0? This stuff got me so confused in calculusShawn

    Yes! Following that thread leads you either to ill definition or infinity, neither of which maths teachers are expected to teach.

    One of my students gave the ingenious answer: 16/0 = 0, because the number of steps you can apply the iterated subtraction for division algorithm (finding division with remainder) to 16 with 0 as the divisor is 0 since you can't do it at all. Which is, again, quite cromulent.
  • jgill
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    Which is, again, quite cromulent.fdrake

    Thank you. I just learned a new word. :chin:
  • Baden
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    The medium of education is to a large part also its message.fdrake

    :100:

    Thank you. I just learned a new word.jgill

    As I've said before, @fdrake has all the words. Every one of 'em. :fire:
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