Calculating Percent Error When Accepted Value is 0

[whale]

how do you find the percent error when the accepted value is 0? you would be dividing by 0 and that just doesn't work

 

[mathman]

how do you find the percent error when the accepted value is 0? you would be dividing by 0 and that just doesn't work

You have discovered the problem. There is no percent error.

 

[ozymandias]

Could you explain yourself more clearly? What is it that you are trying to do?

Assaf
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[whale]

its ok, i have it under control. The problem was that the accepted value of soemthing was 0, and in the percent error formula, you divide by the accpted value. so when i tried to find the percent error, i would get a number divided by 0 and so it would just give me an error.