Please, try a divide by zero! Pleeeeeease! What would happen? What if Katherine Johnson did that in the movie Hidden Figures (this is the Friden that sits on her desk)? Would it catch fire? Would the rocket trajectory go to infinity? Now you are finally going to find out. Stick to the end for a little extra, a scene from another great movie that stars the Friden. This is a Friden STW 10 from 1956. Friden Calculator Playlist:    • Friden STW 10 Mechanical Calculator   More about the Friden STW10 on my website: https://www.curiousmarc.com/mechanical/friden-stw-10-mechnical-calculator Calculator plays the Friden March and does 0/0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MLQ0yI1BrQ Friden SWT-10 full demo video including square roots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKm9eM2BuM0 Restoration of this machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X3ivZfSfW4 00:00 Intro 00:53 Machine setup 01:37 Division by zero 02:19 How division works: calculating pi 03:47 Division slo-mo 04:33 Redo div by 0 with explanation 05:27 Scene from the Apartment movie with hundreds of Fridens Our sponsor for PCBs: https://www.pcbway.com/ Support the team on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/curiousmarc Merch on Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/curiousmarcs-store Learn more on companion site: https://www.curiousmarc.com/