Re: [math-fun] Does zero divide zero?

I suppose this question is subjective, but I would personally define 'a divides b' as: `the ideal <b> is a subset of the ideal <a>' in which case 0|0, but 0 doesn't divide any other integer. This seems to agree with the general intuition on this discussion thread, and also generalises to arbitrary integral domains.

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