obscure division by zero conundrum

[subnunciation]

i know, this shouldnt be a conundrum right? one just shouldnt divide by
zero. but this is suddenly happening *all over* my site. after chasing
the error here and there, i simplified things down to:

response.write cstr(4/2)
response.end

and i STILL get the error:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000b'
Division by zero
[followed by the line on which the error occurs]

so i know it's not my code. how can you get a division by zero error
when you're dividing with CONSTANTS??? did i change some obscure
setting or something?
now mind you, i tried "response.write cstr(4+2)" and the system managed
to output "6".

what the heck is this? please help!

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

su***********@gmail.com wrote:

i know, this shouldnt be a conundrum right? one just shouldnt divide
by zero. but this is suddenly happening *all over* my site. after
chasing the error here and there, i simplified things down to:

response.write cstr(4/2)
response.end

and i STILL get the error:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000b'
Division by zero
[followed by the line on which the error occurs]

Are you saying that if you create a page containing only:
<%
response.write cstr(4/2)
response.end
%>
and run it, you get this error?
If so, I cannot reproduce it and I have no idea what would cause it.
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[kiana]

after 3hrs of struggling, the error went away as randomly as it came.
instead of using those two lines as flags in the page giving me errors,
i created a page called divby0.asp with *only* those two lines and
pointed all other pages to it. after clicking around a bit and not
getting the error on divby0.asp, i reassigned all the original links
and everything was back to normal.

weird isnt it? this is the type of error that makes me uncomfortable bc
i know it could pop back at any moment, but thanks for the inspiration!