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"Division by Zero" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published in 1991 in Full Spectrum 3 magazine [2] [3] and subsequently republished in the 2002 Ted Chiang collection Stories of Your Life and Others.
Division is the inverse of multiplication, meaning that multiplying and then dividing by the same non-zero quantity, or vice versa, leaves an original quantity unchanged; for example () / = (/) =. [12]
"Division by Zero" (originally published in Full Spectrum 3, June 1991) "Story of Your Life" (originally published in Starlight 2, November 1998) (Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner) "Seventy-Two Letters" (originally published in Vanishing Acts, June 2000) (Sidewise Award winner)
The report implied that Anderson had discovered the solution to division by zero, rather than simply attempting to formalize it. The report also suggested that Anderson was the first to solve this problem, when in fact the result of zero divided by zero has been expressed formally in a number of different ways (for example, NaN).
Ted Chiang was born in 1967 in Port Jefferson, New York. [3] His Chinese name is Chiang Feng-nan (姜峯楠; Jiāng Fēngnán). [4]Both of his parents were born in Mainland China and immigrated to Taiwan with their families during the Chinese Communist Revolution before immigrating to the United States. [5]
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The expression , is undefined in arithmetic, as explained in division by zero (the expression is used in calculus to represent an indeterminate form). Mathematicians have different opinions as to whether 0 0 should be defined to equal 1, or be left undefined.