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Myth Confirmed


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On September 21, 1997, a divide by zero error on board the USS Yorktown (CG-48) Remote Data Base Manager brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.

Dividing by zero really is as dangerous as they say.

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I divided a carp by zero for experimentation's sake. Suddenly, the BZP work filter stopped working.

 

~EW~

 

There's a BZP work filter? I never knew you could filter work before. Wonder if the staff ever use it :P .

 

Anyway, whenever I try to divide by zero using a calculator, it usually says something like, "Cannot divide by zero" or "DIVIDE BY ZERO ERROR" (in all caps), so no reality-breaking for me, unfortunately.

 

-TNTOS-

 

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That actually happened!? Wow.

 

You know, if humans could find some way to allow computers to divide by zero without breaking any 'rules of mathematics', then stuff like that would never happen. :P

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I divided a carp by zero for experimentation's sake. Suddenly, the BZP work filter stopped working.

 

~EW~

 

There's a BZP work filter? I never knew you could filter work before. Wonder if the staff ever use it :P .

 

Anyway, whenever I try to divide by zero using a calculator, it usually says something like, "Cannot divide by zero" or "DIVIDE BY ZERO ERROR" (in all caps), so no reality-breaking for me, unfortunately.

 

-TNTOS-

I dried to divide the work filter by zero for experimentation's sake. The work "work" ceased to exist and was replaced by the work "work."

 

(Bear with me here. :P )

 

~EW~

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I divided a carp by zero for experimentation's sake. Suddenly, the BZP work filter stopped working.

 

~EW~

Bwahaha I remember that madness.

 

Dividing by zero would be a pretty awesome supervillain power. He could make mass vanish from existence. Selectively.

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You know, if humans could find some way to allow computers to divide by zero without breaking any 'rules of mathematics', then stuff like that would never happen. :P

There's no way to allow things to divide by zero without breaking the rules of mathematics. :P

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