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Divide By Zero

Without caught exception, a zero divisor, with no one the wiser, deception undetected; divide by zero's end result: wrecked id. Uncaught, adding insult: naught. Without caught exception, divide by zero's end result: naught. ---------- for the Let's Minichu on zero Poetry Contest sponsored by Mohan Chutani written on 04/09/2022 If a program has an id, it is its hidden memories, which are lost when the program crashes, which is hard on the programmer's ego. Of course it has an id-entifier as well. As my daughter would say, "clever, but not funny, dad."

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L Milton Hankins

Date: 4/9/2022 8:30:00 AM

Excellent reflection on the zero, Jeff. Everything multiplied by zero is zero. Is everything divided by zero zero, too? I don't think so. If I have four apples and I divide them by zero, I still have my four apples! Right? Actually, I think the same is true of multiplying by zero, which we're talking about apples!

L Milton Hankins
Date: 4/10/2022 8:30:00 PM

Jeff, my worst subject in school (period) was math, arithmetic or whatever it is called today. Your explanation below left me in Bribane!

Jeff Kyser
Date: 4/9/2022 8:41:00 AM

Computers, even Apples, don’t handle divide by zero well. If you had 2 people, they’d each get 2. But if 4 apples is only ½ of a person’s cut, you need 8 apples. At 1/200th of a person’s cut, you need 800 apples. So as that number gets smaller, you need more and more apples. At zero, the computer says that’s undefined and blows up.