Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Divide/Zero Musings

Divide means to take groups of things and partition them to equal sets.  Or it could mean deciding how many persons or things can fit into a given whole.  For example, we want to know how many buses are needed for 40 students if a bus can take 10 at a time.  Alternatively, if  we know that a bus can seat only 10 students, how many buses are needed for 40 students.


Zero- Zero can mean nothing.  Or if you initially have something and someone takes all of that something, then you have nothing, or zero.  Zero can also mean a reference point, a starting b=point, much like the zero in the number line.  Zero can also mean adding 2 opposite numbers that cancel each other.  As a reference point, zero can mean elevation at sea level (ground0, or zero temperature.

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