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Raised when attempting to divide an integer by 0.
42 / 0
raises the exception:
ZeroDivisionError: divided by 0
Note that only division by an exact 0 will raise that exception:
42 / 0.0 #=> Float::INFINITY 42 / -0.0 #=> -Float::INFINITY 0 / 0.0 #=> NaN