divisionbyzero

So, I’ve had this domain for 7 years now. The concept behind the name goes back even further than that. In highschool in 1997, our AP Calculus teacher made the mistake of getting backed into a corner when displaying a graph of f(x)=1/x.

You see, the graph approaches positive infinity as you approach zero from the left, and negative infinity as you approach zero from the right. A group of us in the back of the classroom started playing with the justifications that division by zero was possible and yielded a result. Our teacher made the mistake of using this graph as a foray into the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. If division by zero is possible, it collapses the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.

Well, today a guy made a number and assigned it to be the value of dividing by zero. Hold there bud, me and four of my friends did that in AP Calculus at a private high school in Bel Air, MD in 1997. Had our results been taken seriously, we should have been excused from our AP Calculus course.

I can get more into the theory, but as you can see from the Way Back Machine, we documented our theory online as early as 2001.

This annoys me almost as much as Imaginary Numbers.