An American warship was crippled for hours because its computer tried to divide by zero!

An American warship was crippled for hours because its computer tried to divide by zero!

In mathematics, division by zero is division where the divisor (denominator) is zero. Such a division can be formally expressed as a/0 where a is the dividend (numerator).


Whether this expression can be assigned a well-defined value depends upon the mathematical setting.


In ordinary (real number) arithmetic, the expression has no meaning, as there is no number which, multiplied by 0, gives a (a≠0), and so division by zero is undefined. Since any number multiplied by zero is zero, the expression 0/0 has no defined value and is called an indeterminate form.


If you try to divide by zero in your calculator, you will get an error. Such as the incident of 1997; On September 1997, the $1 billion American warship USS Yorktown's propulsion system failed.


The Yorktown was incapacitated in the Atlantic Ocean for 2 hours and 45 minutes. The propulsion system failure was caused when the software program made an error by dividing with zero.


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