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Please don't be so vain. Division by zero is undefined, that is (supposed) to be taught in high school. The fact is that computers have to display some value when x/0, and that value is defined by IEEE standard in the context programing languages for consistency.

Pretty good wiki on the topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero



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