8/0 is what?

1 Answer
Jun 16, 2015

It is undefined or you cannot evaluate it.

Explanation:

You cannot evaluate 8/0 because there is no real number (call it a) that can be solution of it:

If you try you get:
8/0=a
rearranging:

8=a*0 that is not true!

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In Calculus you can have a way out or trick to "visualize" the idea behind 8/0 by choosing instead of 0 a value that is near 0 but not 0, such as 0.001
If you try to get as near as possible to zero increasing the number of zeros after the point you'll get very big numbers.
8/0.1=80
8/0.01=800
8/0.001=8000
etc.
the idea is that when you try to get near zero the result of the division gets bigger and bigger....or infinite!