Tag: Mathematics
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The Engagement Paradox
I don’t really want to start another division-by-zero post by pointing out how it is traditionally dismissed as “undefined,” but I have to, because it really is where The Engagement Paradox begins. It is easy to assume that the reason is something like “you can’t divide something into zero parts,” or that the result “would…
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Division by Zero — by the Rules of Division
Introduction When division by zero is dismissed as “undefined” something crucial goes missing. The conflict that “undefined” tries to avoid is not inherent to division, rather it reflects the limitations of the interpretations used to validate or extend division in other contexts. The consequences of supplying zero from the divisor to the inverse operation of multiplication with the quotient…
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In Case of Divide-by-Zero: Break Glass
At some point last night I remembered when the whole “divide by zero” thing started for me, all the way back in grade school. We were being taught about division and it finally came up in class. The teacher wrote some fraction, which for the first time showed “0” as the denominator. She turned to…
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Physics in a Distributed, Process Driven, Information-Based Universe
Implications of Division by Zero and Point Paradox Thought for the day: My mind wandered back to division by zero and it suddenly struck me that, if applicable in nature, it would be the point where a value ceases to be quanta and becomes qualia. I did not see it for a while. I got…
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Divide by Zero
Edit: Updated on Jan 12, 2026 with supporting math conforming to the intuited logic of the original post. I always came back to this article expecting to be ashamed by my “absurd” assertions. I always came away from reading it thinking there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it, even though it simply wasn’t a mathematical paper.…
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