Why division by zero in context of real numbers is "undefined".

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Getting some Terrence Howard vibes off this post. While math can take you to some pretty far out concepts like the square root of negative one which has been found to have practical applications... Division by zero being undefined is a pretty easy concept to grasp.

Division means literally "I have something this larger size and want to break it up into equal sized smaller pieces of this smaller size."

If that smaller size is absolutely nothing than you can't do it. The answer is not even infinity because even 1/∞ is still something that's more than nothing.

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I even could disagree. But i won't.

I'm still hypnotized by the continuous partition of unity.

E.g.

Mathematics is one of the very few things able to do this with a guy like me.