It is undefined. Mathematics if broken when you attempt to divide by zero. Consider the limit of 2/x as x approaches zero. 2/2 = 1 2/1 = 2 2/.5 = 4 2/.1 = 20 2/.01 = 200 2/.0001 = 2000 Now imagine 2/.0000000000000000000000...01. It would be infinitely large. So you might think 2/0 is infinity... but now approach it from below: 2/(-1) = -2 2/(-.01) = -200 etc. So you might be temped to think it is negative infinity. Since it cannot be both negative infinity and positive infinity, it is undefined. I hope that helps to clarify it.

Is this a trick or a riddle? Or is it meant to be a simple answer, like: If I have two dollars but I have no people to share this money with, it's all mine and I'll still have my two dollars. So, 2 divided by zero is two.

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You CANNOT divide any number with ZERO.Mathematicians made that rule.

i would say the answer was 2 because if you have 2 and divide it by 0 then you have still got 2

If you divide two by a progressively smaller negative (-1, -0.5, etc.), you get a progressively larger negative number (-2, -4, etc.). The same applies to the postives (1, 0.5, etc. 2, 4, etc.) My theory is it's like a big circular loop that comes together at zero, and each end (-/+) cancels each other out, leaving you with a penultimate value of 0. This being said, anything divided by zero is zero.

Undefined.

I learned in school anything divided by zero is zero, anything multiplied by zero is zero, and any number to the power of zero is 1. Don't ask why, I only got 60 in that class!

Undefined. You can't divide by zero. Imagine this: You are in a shop, and you have 1.000$, and in the shop they only sell 1 kind of items. Imagine that this item costs 1.000$, so you could buy 1 item. Imagine that this item costs 500$, so you could buy 2 items. Imagine this item costs 100$, so you could buy 10 items. And so on. The result would be this COST ITEMS YOU CAN BUY 1.000$ 1 500$ 2 100$ 10 10$ 100 1$ 1000 Imagine that this item is free, 0 cost. That would mean you could buy infinite items, which isn't really possible. So repeat: "You cannot divide by 0"

2/0 is Undefined.

2 divided by 0 is undefined which is used in trigonometry . It is used in graphing tangent curves on a Unit Circle graph, where the undefined is represented as an asymptote.

Undefined is your best answer, and that probably isn't very useful to you. Trotskyist is wrong. And his "theory" isn't a theory. Mathematics is a construct that helps us describe the real world. It is not some physical experiment being performed. By the way, what is a "penultimate value?" I think Trotsky has some vocabulary problems.

Undetermined

2 divided by 0 gives us positive infinity

Anything divided by zero is undefined. It makes no sense. If you were to take 2/x and let x approach 0 the function will diverge infinitely. Its limit is infinity. If you accept that a/0 is definable you can get all sorts of crazy (and incorrect) results.

Plus or minus infinity and therefore undefined. Assume a is a positive, finite number. Find limit of a/x as x tends to zero. If x tends to zero from the positive side, we get a/ very small number = very large number until a/0+ = infinity. As x tends to 0 from the negative side, we get a/ very small negative number = very large negative number so a/0- = negative infinity. Since we can't say that negative infinity = positive infinity, we have to say the answer is undefined. In the design of electronic circuits we can have a certain type called amplifiers. Amplifier circuits take an input, multiply it to get an amplified output ( eg 3x, 10x, 100x etc ), called the gain. In certain cases, we can design an amplifier that has infinite gain at a certain frequency. In such a case, an output is obtained even though we provide no input and this circuit is called an oscillator. In the real world, we are probably just making a really large gain amplifier (not infinity) and the input signal is probably just a really small signal (not zero) from the random vibrations of electrons but it is easier to design and deal with if we use numbers like zero and infinity to describe the behaviour.

Brahmagupta man who found zero said 2/0 is 0. Mahavira said 2/0 is 2. Today we say undefinable (another way of saying dunno).

Avatar a=b/c Multiply both sides by b a*c=b Nice and simple, right? Lets put 0 in for c, and 2 in for b. a=2/0 a*0=2 Whoops! NOTHING multiplied by 0 will give 2. Therefore, anything divided by 0 is undefined, as it cannot be done.

I guess you could say that 2/0=2 because if you take it back to primary school days it would have gone something like this.... You have two apples and you share them between zero, how many apples do you have??? The answer being 2. Yes I know it is undefinable, just wanted to put a diff spin on it.

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infinity is a wrong answer.there is no solution for numbers divided by 0.

It's infinity. I have a proof for it, but it's too long for me to bother typing in full unless anybody is severly interested. I'll give a quick summary though: 2/0 = ? 2/0^-1 = ? 2/0^-1 = 1/(2/0) 1/(2/0) = 0/2 0/2 = 0 So 2/0 must be infinity because the only number you could divide one by a get zero is infinity.

Two.

Unidentified you can not divide by 0.

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Impossible.