Why can't we divide by zero

Can a near-zero floating value cause a divide-by-zero error? http://stackoverflow.com/q/12114498/1288 3 comments 25/8/2012 cpp

Arithmetics in which you can divide by zero https://jakubmarian.com/arithmetics-in-which-you-can-divide-by-zero/ 16 comments 8/10/2017 math

Keep Calm and Divide by Zero http://graphicallinearalgebra.net/2015/12/14/26-keep-calm-and-divide-by-zero/ 37 comments 14/12/2015 math

Dividing by zero to invert matrices https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/2016/06/22/29-inverting-matrices-and-dividing-by-zero/ 15 comments 22/6/2016 math

Univac: "You're trying to divide by zero". 1956 Computer ad. http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/12/30/an-old-univac-ad-youre-trying-to-divide-by-zero/ 2 comments 30/12/2008 technology

An Old Univac Ad: "You're Trying to Divide by Zero" http://www.globalnerdy.com/2008/12/30/an-old-univac-ad-youre-trying-to-divide-by-zero/ 132 comments 30/12/2008 programming

The Daily 202: Democratic committees divided over playing in primaries, with Texas as ground zero https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/03/05/daily-202-democratic-committees-divided-over-playing-in-primaries-with-texas-as-ground-zero/5a9c381430fb047655a06a9d/ 6 comments 5/3/2018 politics

Why can't we have a system for dividing by zero the same way we have imaginary numbers? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/7akmy2/why_cant_we_have_a_system_for_dividing_by_zero/ 231 comments 3/11/2017 askscience

Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Divides https://www.nber.org/papers/w31688 19 comments 22/9/2023 truereddit

How can a voltage divider circuit "feed" into an output circuit if the current going into the output circuit is zero? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/75wpb4/how_can_a_voltage_divider_circuit_feed_into_an/ 11 comments 12/10/2017 askscience

[C# and .NET For Beginners] Chapter 9 - Arithmetic Operators, Overflow, Divide By Zero, Rounding, Bitwise and Shift Operators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlUwk9YGHDM 5 comments 3/3/2022 csharp

[C#][maybe all languages]Floats: you can divide them by zero and don't get a DivideByZeroException https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point 3 comments 29/6/2016 programmertil

learning stuff by accident is the most fun; divide by zero and no DivideByZeroException in float! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point 11 comments 28/6/2016 csharp

On September 21, 1997: USS Yorktown divided by zero, and all hell broke loose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/uss_yorktown_%28cg-48%29#smart_ship_testbed 9 comments 9/12/2009 reddit.com

Windows NT4 will never crash, and it can divide by zero! Oh wait... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/uss_yorktown_%28cg-48%29#smart_ship_testbed 16 comments 25/8/2009 technology

Sessions Says 'Zero Tolerance' For Illegal Border Crossers, Vows To Divide Families https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/07/609225537/sessions-says-zero-tolerance-for-illegal-border-crossers-vows-to-divide-families? 24 comments 8/5/2018 politics

"Pony", a programming language that allows dividing by zero, simply returning zero as the result https://tutorial.ponylang.org/gotchas/divide-by-zero.html 134 comments 3/11/2017 programming

Can I find the common roots of two polynomials by dividing them and forcing the remainder to be zero? https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/4yjjlh/can_i_find_the_common_roots_of_two_polynomials_by/ 19 comments 19/8/2016 math

Mechanical Calculator Dividing by Zero (x-post r/videos) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443B6f_4n6k 52 comments 29/3/2016 math

Wolfram|Alpha divided both sides by zero when computing this input, and still got an answer, how is this possible? http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=d%2Fdv+%28sqrt%282%2Fpi%29*%28m%2F%28k*T%29%29%5E%283%2F2%29*v%5E2*e%5E-%28m*v%5E2%2F%282*k*T%29%29%29+%3D+0%2C+solve+for+v 58 comments 6/2/2012 math

What are some interesting and/or fun "fake proofs"? We all know of the "proof" where you show that 1=2 via dividing by zero; I'm looking for more interesting ones! https://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/falseProofs/ 440 comments 19/4/2016 math

Techniques used to ensure that airplanes won’t stall out in flight could be adapted to prove that computer programs won’t divide by zero http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/can-control-theory-make-software-better-0319.html 4 comments 27/7/2013 compsci

Techniques used to ensure that airplanes won’t stall out in flight could be adapted to prove that computer programs won’t divide by zero http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/can-control-theory-make-software-better-0319.html 10 comments 27/7/2013 programming

Wisconsin's richest woman, billionaire Diane Hendricks who was seen with Scott Walker in "divide and conquer" video, pays zero in state income tax http://www.jsonline.com/business/beloit-billionaire-pays-zero-in-2010-state-income-tax-bill-ep5js3j-155853835.html 13 comments 31/5/2012 politics

"On 21 September 1997 a crew member entered a zero into a database field causing a divide by zero error ... causing the ship's propulsion system to fail." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/uss_yorktown_%28cg-48%29#smart_ship_testbed 273 comments 23/2/2011 programming

Conservatives for legalizing Marijuana: Normally I laugh at anything that comes out of Glenn Beck's or Sarah Palin's mouth, but now they're behind prop 19? This is like dividing by zero! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k4ztae7tgw&feature=related 59 comments 25/10/2010 politics

Okay, which one of you did this? "I packed my bag and in it I put a PSP, a PS3, a TV, High-End PC, Gabe Newell, a C# program that can divide by zero, death metal t-shirts, a house, a nigger stole bicycle, my pet mouse Nasi, a bar of health" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/i_packed_my_bag 2 comments 18/10/2010 reddit.com