(February 9, 2017 at 4:33 am)pool the great Wrote:(February 9, 2017 at 4:24 am)Alex K Wrote: The correct question corresponding to the mathematical operation 1:0 would be "I divide one cake among 0 persons. How much cake does each person get?"
If I divide my cake with nobody how much cake will each person have? Zero.
So 1/0=0?
If you divide your cake by no people, you are not dividing the cake. There are no people in that scenario, so they are not able to have zero cake. You didn't do anything with the cake so there still is (1) cake. But not because 1/0=1, but because the /0 part didn't happen. Because it's nonsense.
How would you cut a cake for 0 people? You wouldn't. There is nobody to cut it for. So you don't perform the operation of cutting. You don't divide. That's why the (1) cake is still there. But it's not the effect of a division.
