What Happens if you Divide by Zero on Different Calculators?

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0:10 - Physical calculators
0:27 - Windows calculators
1:44 - Other OS calculators
2:54 - Phone calculators
3:33 - Programming Languages
7:31 - Other calculators
7:50 - Table
7:58 - End screen

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[hariranormal]

I remember a MC Alpha Redstone creation, the calculator there, if you'd do 0/0 the whole thing would explode! :P

[gabryel]

me yesterday: Imma go to sleep at 10pm
me at 3 am:

[meep]

I just watched 8 minutes of this guy typing 1 ÷ 0 into almost every calculator.















And I loved it.

[Gust_The_Man]

0/0 irl : nothing happens and just says "Error"

0/0 in cartoons : *NUCLEAR EXPLOSION*

[World_of_OSes]

For anyone who thinks that 1/0 is 0 or 1, let's do some real-world examples.

Let's start with a normal division, so you can see what I mean. Let's do 10/2=5. Let's say something travels 10 meters in 2 seconds, that means that it is travailing at 5 m/s because 10/2=5. Another way to look at this is; how far does it travel in 1 second? Well the answer is 5 meters.

So now let's take the same example, but with 1/0. Let's say something travels 1 meter in 0 seconds. How fast is it travailing? Well there isn't really a proper answer to this apart from infinity, if something has traveled 1 meter in 0 seconds, then it has effectively teleported, so it's speed is infinite (which isn't possible in the real universe, since the speed limit is ~300 Mm/s). So if you look at it another way; how far does it travel in 1 second, if it travels 1 meter in 0 seconds? Well it will travel an infinite distance in any non-zero amount of time.

To see how 0/0 differs from 1/0, let's take another real-world example. Let's say something travels 0 meters in 0 seconds. Well anything traveling at any finite speed will travel 0 meters in 0 seconds. So the speed could be 0 m/s, but it could also be 1 m/s, or 500 m/s, or any speed. So how far does it travel in 1 second? Well we don't know because the fact that it has traveled 0 meters in 0 seconds doesn't tell us how fast it is traveling, so any answer could be correct (apart from infinity). So 0/0 is undefined.

I did another video similar to this one where I divided 0 by 0 on different calculators, and many of them displayed different results to 1/0:

[starekmichal]

Any other calculator: 0, infinity, cannot divide by zero, error)
ALCATEL: *_E_*

[rccookie]

Actually in many programming languages (ie Java) it makes a big difference whether you divide integers or floating point numbers by zero. Integers will cause an exception, while floats will produce positive/ negative infinity. This is defined by a norm of the IEEE, and can cause a lot of confusion

[supe]

Time to explain some misconceptions in the comment sections:

First off, showing infinity as an answer is just another simpler way of saying Error. In the scenarios where it somehow isn’t a error, it means every single answer would be correct.

Secondly, the problem with square root of -1 = X (called problem A) 1/0 = X (called problem B) have different issues regarding them.

Problem A has no Real number capable of solving it, but there’s no fundamental issues with the equation

Problem B suffers from 2 contradictory statements being 0X = 1 which is the equation we’re dealing with and 0X = 0 which is the basic definition of 0. This is why 1/0 is a error, because 0 is the only number that will find the same answer regardless of what you multiply it with.

[milanesa_P]

Windows: cannot divide by zero 🥺

Ubuntu: Division by zero is undefined 🧐🍷

[sanewa]

imagine installing a lot of operating systems just for divide a number by zero

[ridhomblr]

I love how android's calculator just simply gives up and says ∞
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Calculator timestamps:

- Physical calculators
0:10 Standard calculator
0:17 Scientific calculator

- Windows calculators
0:27 Windows 1 & 2
0:36 Windows 3.1
0:45 Windows 95
0:54 Windows 98
1:03 Windows 2000, ME, XP & Vista
1:12 Windows 7 & 8.x (Desktop)
1:21 Windows 8.1 (Metro UI)
1:28 Windows 10
1:36 Windows 11

- Other OS calculators
1:44 MacOS
1:53 Ubuntu
2:04 KCalc
2:12 Hauku OS
2:20 Visopsys
2:28 MikeOS
2:43 Android (x86)

- Phone calculators
2:53 Alcatel
3:06 Android (Old LG)
3:15 Android (Samsung)
3:23 Android (Scientific Calculator app)

- Programming languages
3:32 Python
3:45 C#
4:29 Java
5:18 JavaScript
6:01 GameMaker
6:45 BYOB
7:03 QBasic
7:15 Bash

- Other calculators
7:30 Excel
7:41 Google Calculator

7:50 Table

[The_JohnF]

siri has a good way of explaining 0 divided by 0
"say you had 0 cookies and you shred them between 0 friends, see it doesnt work and cookie monster is sad bc there are no cookies and you are sad bc you have no friends"
Me:
why is it so true

[NikitosO-dlnc]

To check whether the division is performed correctly, you need to multiply the quotient by the divisor. With 1/0, any number multiplied by 0 will be 0, so such an expression has no solution

[vexusss]

I'll turn 20 in 1 week, I have no idea for future and I'm watching what happens if you divide by zero on different calculators.

[ClohOrtega]

Now you should try dividing 0/0. It gives a different result (at least in Win10).

[bbo]

4:20 if you make zero an integer, the division will always be an integer for some stupid reason. If you make it a float, it returns infinity

[ilect]

Ah yes gotta love when ypur school forces you to buy a texas intstrument ti-83/84 for 120$ when literally every machine has a calculator provided for free that you're not allowed to use

[mistercreeper]

2:50 Ok, that ACTUALLY gave the answer! 👍

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