[Tinman]

Being in construction most of my life, geometry is about as complicated as math has ever gotten.

That said, maybe someone can explain this to me. If zero indicates nothing, and you divide something by nothing, how are you dividing it at all? Aren't you simply left with "something"?

I understand about multiplying by zero because, you get the same product regardless of the order of the numbers (AxB = BxA).

What can I say, I'm the product of public schools.

And, I'm old. 8-)

Regards

[LibWhacker]

Hi, Tinman!... See my comment at post #70. It's the standard explanation you get in algebra class for not allowing division by zero. In short, no matter which numerator you try to divide zero into, you'll either run into a problem of nonexistence (of an answer) or a problem of non-uniqueness (of an answer). So division by zero is left undefined for all numerators.