BEGIN WAYBACK TOOLBAR INSERT NEXT/PREV MONTH NAV AND MONTH INDICATOR OCT NOV DEC NEXT/PREV CAPTURE NAV AND DAY OF MONTH INDICATOR 21 NEXT/PREV YEAR NAV AND YEAR INDICATOR 2010 2011 2012 74 captures 24 Jan 05 - 14 Jan 17 Close Help END WAYBACK TOOLBAR INSERT Style: Fantastic Metropolis Division by Zero By Ted Chiang Fiction · Reprints · December 13, 2003 Last modified: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:49:49 -0600 Dividing a number by zero doesn’t produce an infinitely large number as an answer. The reason is that division is defined as the inverse of multiplication; if you divide by zero, and then multiply by zero, you should regain the number you started with. However, multiplying infinity by zero produces only zero, not any other number. There is nothing which can be multiplied by zero to produce a n...