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doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Zero is a real number, but not a natural number. I’m not going to explain the difference because, dude, this is junior high math

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- doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Indeed, and infinite isn’t… It’s like comparing Newton and Einstein on a regular earth scale.
  
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  - 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Right, infinity is late high-school, early university math.
    
    Also not really relevant but you know that elementary mechanics approximates the theory of relatively at regular earth scale?
    
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