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		<title>Math and Dividing By Zero..</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, I&#8217;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.</p>
<p><img src="http://divisionbyzero.net/blog/graph-1overX.png" alt="Graph of f(x) = 1/x;" /></p>
<p>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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_calculus">Fundamental Theorem of Calculus</a>.  If division by zero is possible, it collapses the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.</p>
<p>Well, today a <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2006/12/06/divide_zero_feature.shtml">guy made a number and assigned it to be the value of dividing by zero</a>.  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.</p>
<p>I can get more into the theory, but as you can see from <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010225014319/divisionbyzero.net/theory.html">the Way Back Machine, we documented our theory online as early as 2001</a>.</p>
<p>This annoys me almost as much as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_numbers">Imaginary Numbers</a>.</p>
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