Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00306)

Sunday, August 28, 2005, 8:23:45 PM, Jerry wrote:

> I was never taught that, and would have remembered it if I was. 
> Infinity...that is very interesting. Anyone else recall what they were
> taught in their math classes concerning a number being divided by zero?

Figuratively speaking, "A" divided by "B" equals a number of times one
should take "B" to fill "A" with it. If you take 0 for "B" and any
_other_ number for "A" you will never end filling the latter with the
former. Thus division by 0 is said to equal infinity. The result of
0/0 is still undefined.