{"id":7929,"date":"2019-04-18T15:18:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=7929"},"modified":"2019-04-18T19:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T23:36:44","slug":"what-is-0-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/04\/18\/what-is-0-0\/","title":{"rendered":"What is 0\/0?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"162\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AW041719-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7916\"\/><figcaption>What is 0\/0?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw041819-12.jpg\" alt=\"[Response: It does not exist. 0 can't be at the denominator. Hope that's correct.]\" class=\"wp-image-7966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw041819-12.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/aw041819-12-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>[Response: It does not exist. 0 can&#8217;t be at the denominator. Hope that&#8217;s correct.]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The operation x\/y asks what you must multiply y by to get x.  For 0\/0 the answer is &#8220;anything you want.&#8221;  Because 1 times 0 is 0, but 3 times 0 is also 0 and 452 times 0 is zero, etc.  So no single number is THE answer and it is considered indeterminate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operation x\/y asks what you must multiply y by to get x. For 0\/0 the answer is &#8220;anything you want.&#8221; Because 1 times 0 is 0, but 3 times 0 is also 0 and 452 times 0 is zero, etc. So no single number is THE answer and it is considered indeterminate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7968,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}