• bizarroland
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    51 month ago

    If you plot out any number divided by x, as x approaches 0 the answer goes towards Infinity, yes.

    When it reaches zero it ceases to be a number.

    Every number divided by 0 is “undefined”, and it is not undefined because we can’t describe it, it is undefined because it does not exist, because you cannot divide things by 0.

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      -51 month ago

      You might say that if you don’t divide a number the number remains itself. But you are saying to divide a number by not dividing the number.

      That mathematical process does not work. One or the other must be true for the operation to happen.

      You might be saying that an infinite amount of nothing can go into any something, but that is also not true. For there to be nothing, there cannot be something.

      Zero is not a number in and of itself save for when it is literally the descriptor of the lack of the existence of a quantity.

      Trying to divide a number by zero is like trying to divide existence by non-existence. If existence exists, then there is no non-existence to divide it with.

      Therefore you cannot mathematically compute how much non-existence there is in existence.