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Problems with Zero - Numberphile

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MATT PARKER: 0 is a perfectly good number.

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And you ignore it at your peril.

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The problem is it's a dangerous number.

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And a lot of things can go horribly wrong with 0.

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And because it is a slightly more unusual, nuanced number,

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you have to be a little bit more careful with

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how you handle it.

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And so there are some things that you can't do with it.

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So you can't divide something by 0.

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And you can't have things like 0 to the power of 0.

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And I get asked about these all the time.

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People are constantly, why can't I divide by 0?

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I want to divide by 0?

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Isn't it just infinity?

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Blah, blah, blah.

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And so I thought I would do two things.

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First of all, I'm going to show you why, no, you cannot

00:36

divide by 0.

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It's not just infinity.

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It's a bit more complicated than that.

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And then, I'm also going to look at why you can't have 0

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to the power of 0.

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JAMES GRIME: OK, so this is something that we've been

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asked a lot at Numberphile.

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Well, you may know that something like multiplication

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is just glorified adding, really.

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You want to do 5 times 10?

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You just add on 5 plus 5 plus 5 plus 5 10 times.

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Division is just glorified subtraction.

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So if I want to take a number like, oh, 20, and then divide

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it by 4, I just keep subtracting 4.

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So you take away 4, take away 4, take away 4.

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You do that five times.

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And that number, 5, that's your answer.

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20 divided by 4 is equal to 5.

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So it's just glorified subtraction.

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That's really what it is.

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Now, if I divide by 0, then that means I'm subtracting 0

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over and over.

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So 20 divided by 0 means I take away 0.

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I've got 20.

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And then, I take away 0 again.

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I've still got 20.

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I take away 0, and 0, and that would go one forever.

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You would never get very far doing something like that,

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keep taking away 0.

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So 20 divided by 0?

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That's infinity, isn't it?

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Surely--

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surely it's infinity.

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And that's what I expect people to think.

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Surely only a nerd would tell you differently.

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That's when you cut to Matt telling them differently.

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MATT PARKER: Because first of all, everyone goes, why can't

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you just say that's something divided by 0?

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So let's say I'm going to do a function.

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I'm going to have the function of 1/x.

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JAMES GRIME: We don't say something is equal to

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infinity, OK?

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So infinity is not a number, and it can't be

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treated like number.

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It's an idea.

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So we can't say 1 divided by 0 equals infinity.

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We can no more say that than we can say 1 divided by 0 is

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