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    Using "x/0" in real life.

    So you have a deck of 100 cards. You, for whatever reason, want to distribute these cards equally among the players of a card game. The thing is, there are no players (existent or otherwise) and you yourself are not planning on playing. What is the number of cards you distribute to each player?

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    Random and fantastical quotes from FIMfiction

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2013

Using "x/0" in real life. · 10:18pm Sep 30th, 2013

So you have a deck of 100 cards. You, for whatever reason, want to distribute these cards equally among the players of a card game. The thing is, there are no players (existent or otherwise) and you yourself are not planning on playing. What is the number of cards you distribute to each player?

WELL, since there are no players, you can't distribute any cards thus 0 cards are distributed to each player because there are none to be distributed to.
100/0=0
Now we have to consider the meaning of each variable (even if they have already been assigned values)
c/p=d
"c" is the number of total cards.
"p" is the total number of players to be distributed to.
"d" is the total number of cards distributed to each player.
No matter what any other mathematical equation or theory says, the fact that there were no players means there were no cards distributed to them. If no cards are distributed, then 0 cards are distributed. 0=0.

This is where math hits a wall and reality keeps on going. This doesn't mean math can't describe the situation, it just means that some of the rules math has is getting in the way and need to be amended to accept this part of reality. The thing is that people get hung up on the belief that math is an absolute fact of the universe and therefore, all their rules associated with math (that they came up with to describe it's workings by the way) must be absolute facts as well.

Any way, I've been trying to come up with a decent replacement for some of the "broken" rule for a bit not and I'm burnt out so just take this into consideration.

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