Originally posted by Kezil
I'm only a sophomore, in high school, taking Algebra II. This problem however, has always bugged me[/I]
Ya, sorry if I sounded like I was hacking you. I didn't mean to. It's just taken as a given in all my calculus courses to date that a denominator is never allowed to be zero. If I remember correctly, this has been a firmly held belief for hundreds if not thousands of years (probably back to pythagoreas, can't quite remember though).

I personally love math. Though I don't get the best marks in it, numbers are what makes sense to me (hence doing physics, math and computer science as the only courses I do at uni).

I have one for you. Use an abacus. Count out 30 beads. Now divide those beads into 5 groups. That's ok. Now put those beads back together. Divide them into zero groups. Hmm, I wonder if you abacus would crack and disintegrate?