division error

Math operation failure

A division error is a computational mistake that occurs when dividing numbers, most commonly division by zero—an undefined operation that crashes programs or produces error messages.

In programming and mathematics, division errors also include truncation mistakes when integer division discards remainders: The division error caused the calculation to return 2 instead of 2.5.

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