What are the problems in division?

Answer 1

The biggest problem in division comes with computers.

Most of us have probably experienced programs malfunctioning or even crashing due to "Divide by zero error" even though this error message might not be presented.

We can not divide any number with zero.

A second "problem" is division where the result end in an endless decimal representation of 0.3333333 into infinity with 3's or other numbers.

An example of this would be 1 divide by 3.

In algebra it would simply be represented as 1/3 but with computers and most simple calculators the answer would be forced to be similar to 0.3333333333

When multiplying by 3 again you would get 0.9999999999 of which is not identical to the start.

In algebra, 1/3 multiply by 3 equals one.

The 1 divide by 3 problem is not of great importance though, as most calculations is not dependent on 100% correct answers

A third problem is that it is difficult to do division of large numbers in head.

Most of us can quicly do 6 divide by 3.

Most of us can do 25 divide by 5 but it requires more thinking.

Some of us can do 5 divide by 25 with a lot of thinking.

I would call for help from my calculator or writing a lot on a piece of paper if doing 55 divide by 255.

Division require much more timeconsuming steps to be done as compared with plus, minus and multiply.