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Ask Siri To Divide Zero By Zero And Get This Brilliant Answer

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Siri: good for reminders, better for silly questions (Flick/Kārlis Dambrāns)

What is zero divided by zero?

Ask Google and you’ll get the same answer over several millions results explaining calculus, algebra and “negative infinity”.

Ask an iPhone, however, and Siri will give you a far more succinct, comical answer.

The internet has been awash with people sharing the response from the in-built smartphone feature since Monday night.

We’re not sure where exactly it began, but its seems to have gone viral since Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul urged Twitter users to grab an iPhone and pose Siri the mathematical question.

If you’ve got an iPhone to hand, try it now. The response is bound to raise a smile.

“Imagine that you have zero cookies and you split them evenly among zero friends,” says Siri.

“How many cookies does each person get? See? It doesn’t make sense. And Cookie Monster is sad that there are no cookies, and you are sad that you have no friends.”

It’s among its best retorts, but not its only one: the virtual assistant has hundreds of other witty responses built in for iPhone users asking the impossible or the downright cheeky.

“When is the world going to end?” is a particularly favourite.

Among the range of answers Siri gives are “Right after you hear the words ‘fire it up!’ and “As long as you keep me charged, we should be fine”.