What about division by 0? This stuff got me so confused in calculus — Shawn

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.

Which is, again, quite cromulent. — fdrake

Thank you. I just learned a new word. :chin:

The medium of education is to a large part also its message. — fdrake

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Thank you. I just learned a new word. — jgill

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