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Funny mathematics: what will I get if I divide zero(0) by zero(O)

What will (0/0) result? Infinity? zero? 1? or something else??? The mathematicians had a lot of experiments and thoughts on this. There were many suggested solutions as well. I am going to present some of them and also the actual description here. **Solution 1:** We know if 0 is numerator of a fraction, it results 0. So the answer will be zero(0).

**Solution 2:** When 0 is denominator, it is infinity. Because (something by 0 is infinity).

**Solution 3:** This is quite different from the previous ones. These people said, "Let's think what is *division*. (20/4) means what number should I multiply with 4 to get 20. So, (0/0) means what should I multiply with zero(0) to get zero(0)." It can be anything as (something*0=0).

**Solution 4:** This people said. No! We know, 1 by 1 is 1, 5 by 5 is 1 so the result will be 1.

**Solution 5:** The mathematicians said, "We can't determine the value of (0/0). It is **INDETERMINATE**." ***And this is the actual solution of (0/0).*** Now a **simple question** is, "We now know (0/0=indeterminate). Is it undefined too?" Yes it is. Why not? It is raising confusion. And the thing that doesn't have actual value, raises confusion is called undefined. And a special case of undefined is indeterminate. (1/0) is undefined but not indeterminate. But (0/0) is undefined. And more specifically it is indeterminate.

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