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If doing 1 divided by a number, then as the 2nd number gets smaller and smaller, and closer and closer to 0, then the final answer gets bigger and bigger (diverges) and hence 'tends to infinity' as the 2nd number approaches zero (from positive numbers).
To Divide by Zero is an internet slang term describing an action that leads to an epic failure or theoretically unlikely disaster, such as an earth-shattering apocalypse or a wormhole in the time-space continuum.
X/n can equal ∞ or -∞. One of the reasons why you can't divide by zero is very simple: 8*x=8 | x = 1. 8*x=0 | x = 0. 0*x=0 | x = infinite amount of solutions. 0/0 is feasible in some situations, if you think about it in limits (not really division by zero, but close).
2 gru 2020 · Division is defined by solving an equation that can be easily solved for all pairs x, y of numbers where y ≠ 0. You can give arguments why it is reasonable not to define division by zero, but the fact is that it is not defined. We could easily define division by zero: We could just say that x / y := x whenever y = 0.
The reciprocal function y = 1 x. As x approaches zero from the right, y tends to positive infinity. As x approaches zero from the left, y tends to negative infinity. In mathematics, division by zero, division where the divisor (denominator) is zero, is a unique and problematic special case.
If you divide by a very small negative number, you’ll get a very large negative number. There is no “division by zero” and there is no “answer” of infinity. You are thinking of a limit. Division of a number by x, as x tends to 0, is “infinity” but this is the answer to a limit, not a calculation.
1 is the multiplicative identity element, just like 0 is the additive identity element: 1 is what remains when you have a product of zero numbers ( empty product ), just like 0 is what remains when you have a sum of zero numbers ( empty sum ). Empty sum: 0 * 2 = (0) + 0 + 0. 0 * 1 = (0) + 0.
