You get a bizarre answer when you ask Siri to divide 0 by 0
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Fire up Siri and ask it "What is zero divided by zero."
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You get the true mathematical answer:
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Here's a transcription of the bizarre answer Siri gives you:
Imagine that you have zero cookies and you split them evenly among zero friends. How many cookies does each person get?
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See? It doesn't make sense. And Cookie Monster is sad that there are no cookies. And you are sad that you have no friends.
Strange, right?
And if you're interested, a math lover, or just think Siri is plain wrong about the whole idea of 0/0 being indeterminate, Wolfram MathWorld has the technical answer to squash your fears:
Division by zero is the operation of taking the quotient of any number x and 0, i.e., x/0. The uniqueness of division breaks down when dividing by zero, since the product 0 y = 0 is the same for any y, so y cannot be recovered by inverting the process of multiplication. 0 is the only number with this property and, as a result, division by zero is undefined for real numbers and can produce a fatal condition called a "division by zero error" in computer programs.
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