{"id":474,"date":"2004-11-08T06:20:19","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T11:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/11\/08\/the-tale-of-zero\/"},"modified":"2004-11-08T06:20:19","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T11:20:19","slug":"the-tale-of-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/11\/08\/the-tale-of-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a436'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n A friend of mine asked me about the history of Zero which led me to the<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zero\">Wikipedia entry on Zero<\/a><br \/>\n which led me to a Professor&#8217;s page on the discussion of zero and why<br \/>\n division by zero is undefined.  Something that should be taught in grade<br \/>\n schools but is probably forgotten by many many people over many years<br \/>\n of not actively using it (except for people who deal with divide by zeroes<br \/>\n everyday in their life).\n <\/p>\n<p>\n The main point to remember is <i>x \/ 0<\/i> is an undefined operation.  It<br \/>\n is not infinity as many others might think.   For a long discussion check<br \/>\n out the page.  It also shows a faulty way to get <i>1 = 2<\/i> all because<br \/>\n of the assumption of being able to divide by zero.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/home.ubalt.edu\/ntsbarsh\/zero\/ZERO.HTM\">To the Saga of Zero<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine asked me about the history of Zero which led me to the Wikipedia entry on Zero which led me to a Professor&#8217;s page on the discussion of zero and why division by zero is undefined. Something that should be taught in grade schools but is probably forgotten by many many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}