Zero divided by zero

Name: Zero divided by zero
Creator: E. E. McDonnell
Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 0102 computer and information sciences, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1976Publisher:ACM PressJournal:Proceedings of the eighth international conference on APL - APL '76

Authors: E. E. McDonnell;

doi: 10.1145/800114.803689

Zero divided by zero

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Current implementations of APL give one as the result of zero divided by zero. This paper gives the reasons for proposing that this quotient be changed to zero.Two conventions introduced by K. E. Iverson [1] for the exposition of mathematical topics are used here.

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