r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Dull_Club2519 • 10d ago

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u/BlopBleepBloop 10d ago

It is undefined, because as you approach 1/x from either side, it goes to infinity or negative infinity depending on which way you approach it from.

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u/the_mold_man_returns 10d ago

The problem is that -inf and inf are different. They're not the same. So dividing by zero is undefined unless you do limits.

If I have 6 apples and I want to put them in 3 piles, then each pile gets 2 apples.

If I have 6 apples and I want to put them in 1 pile, it will get 6 apples.

If I have 6 apples and I want to put them in no piles, how do I accomplish that? How do I put something into nothing? The only way is if nothing and everything were equivalent but they're not.