Comment on (I wonder if he knows about lemmy)1 divided by 0 (a 3rd grade teacher and principal got it wrong), Reddit r/NoStupidQuestions [4:51 | Dec 02 2023 | bprp precalculus]

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doctorn@r.nf ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You say it yourself. If you jeep adding infinite zeros you will never get 1, hence the ‘divided by 0’ part.

Also, 0 is technically not a number either, it’s the concept of the absence of one. You can’t count 0 things. That doesn’t mean we don’t use it, thogh. It’s just less hard to imagine and closer to our basic calculations than infinity is.

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