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Ben_Reilly wrote:Yeah, my first thought was that there's never been a human being who has been able to solve that problem, since division by zero is impossible -- don't know why Americans were singled out.

Here's one -- a man sees his friend on the opposite side of a river and crosses over to greet him. He doesn't have a bridge or boat, but he doesn't get wet. How did he do it?

Lord Foul wrote:arguably so zack...but only if you do the maths WRONG and have an active division by zero...

you have to mensurate both top and bottom of the divison FIRST

so you dont actually have division by zero

since 0+10 = 10

and mathematically speaking infinity is undefined....

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:arguably so zack...but only if you do the maths WRONG and have an active division by zero...

you have to mensurate both top and bottom of the divison FIRST

so you dont actually have division by zero

since 0+10 = 10

and mathematically speaking infinity is undefined....

Rules state that you do roots, powers,

Then multiply and divide

Then add or subtract

So you get:

5 + (3 x 2) - (10/0) + 10

11 - + 10

Infinity math says anything plus/minus/etc infinity is infinity.

ARITHMETIC INVOLVING ZERO


If you add zero to or subtract it from any other number that number does not change,

e.g. 2 + 0 = 2, 6 – 0 = 6, 0 + ½ = ½ .

If you multiply by zero, the answer is always zero,

e.g. 5 ´ 0 = 0, 10000 ´ 0 = 0,

0 ´ = 0, (-6) ´ 0 = 0.
 
If zero is divided by another number the answer is zero,
e.g. 0 ¸ 6 = = 0.
You can NEVER DIVIDE BY ZERO
e.g. and are all undefined.

veya_victaous wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:Yeah, my first thought was that there's never been a human being who has been able to solve that problem, since division by zero is impossible -- don't know why Americans were singled out.

Here's one -- a man sees his friend on the opposite side of a river and crosses over to greet him. He doesn't have a bridge or boat, but he doesn't get wet. How did he do it?

it might be Aussie answer but
dry river