Division by zero

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I always multiply instead of dividing... So if you want to make something half size use x * .5 rather than x / 2.

Using this method you will never get division by 0 and multiplying by 0 gives a result of 0 safely.

That's a neat solution when you know the divisor, but what about a situation like this? :
ratio# = mesh_height# / mesh_width#

What you're getting is Nan = Not a number. In my opinion it's best to avoid all divisions by 0. While you may not get a MAV strange & unexpected things can start happening.

Hmm, is Infinity the same as NaN? When I print the value it says 'Infinity' not NaN. I know using NaN can cause weird things but I haven't noticed anything odd during testing. It almost seems as Infinity is treated as an extremely small fraction, which is basically what I want. :)