[dmz73]

Like everything in life, it depends... For example: Storage has 5 items that need to be processed. 5 items need to be split equaly between available processes. There are currently 0 available processes so 5 / 0 = 0 items to be processed is more correct than either 5 or Nan or infinity.

[Almondsetat]

Your example is quite vague (e.g. are we dealing with an integer number of items and processes?) and in general if something looks kinda like a division it doesn't mean it is exactly division. Just like in math, we have the power to simply say: if COND -> divide normally, else -> do something else.