(December 13, 2015 at 9:50 am)excitedpenguin Wrote:(December 13, 2015 at 9:44 am)Vic Wrote: That's not correct. The number of books in the pile is the outcome of the division, not the number we're dividing by. As in 5 piles of 2 books each is 10/5=0. The number of piles is what we're dividing by, so the question of 10/0 is the question of dividing 10 books into 0 piles. Physically impossible.
You don't divide them at all so it should be zero.
I'm just trying to apply common sense, I already know I'm wrong.
Not dividing at all would be not dividing at all. Dividing by zero is dividing. If you don't have the 10 books you can't divide them.
You can't divide by zero just because it's not possible. You can't put 10 books in zero piles.
