Comment by banachtarski

This article grinds my gears. He quotes a number of mathematicians that correctly state the undefined nature of 1/0. Then proceeds to interpret that this means that we can choose any specific value to represent as 1/0 that we want. NO. We have "NaN" for a reason and it is an important signal to the programmer that a mistake was made. The language that assigns it to 0 silently is bunk as is this article.