Seems like it should and the result should be one. Does mathematics agree with me on that?

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    9 months ago

    It does not. If you enforce 0/0=1, then you end up in a situation where you can prove any two numbers are equal to each other and you end up with a useless system, so we do not allow for that.

    e.g. 0=0*2 -> 0/0 = (0/0)*2 -> 1=1*2 -> 1=2

    If you get into calculus though, you’ll have ways to deal with this to some extent using limits.

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      9 months ago

      Quick tip, Markdown treats * specially so you need to escape it like so: \*

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        9 months ago

        Thanks. I already fixed it, but it seems Lemmy is just slow to propagate edits.