<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM Ian Hobson <<a href="mailto:hobson42@gmail.com">hobson42@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I do hope they taught you that dividing by zero was impossible/ did not <br>
work/was not allowed.<br>
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On 08/07/2025 04:46, Mark Mielke wrote:<br>
> like how in primary grade school they might teach that divided by zero <br>
> equals zero,<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Much outside of Nginx relevant - but unfortunately, they did teach that divided by zero was zero in grade 2, around 1985. My teacher was probably not happy with it either, being forced to teach a curriculum, and instead of telling me I was wrong, she invited me to go up to the board after the lesson and explain my thoughts to the class. I think if I explained my thoughts, it was an interesting loophole for her, where she could claim she stayed on curriculum and could ask questions rather than "teaching".</div><div><br></div><div>A similar thing happened with "power of", where I was telling one of my peers about how it worked on the bus, and he told me I was making up fake math, so he invited the grade 6 bus monitor to the conversation to confirm if I was telling the truth or lying, and she told us I was lying, and there was "no such thing". But, my grade 2 teacher also invited me to explain it the next day.</div><div><br></div><div>Childhood scars... but that teacher was a favourite of mine. :-)</div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Mark Mielke <<a href="mailto:mark.mielke@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.mielke@gmail.com</a>><br><br></div></div>