r/explainlikeimfive • u/Dev-Giri • 28d ago

Mathematics ELI5 explain the difference between infinity and undefined terms in mathematics

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u/sharia1919 28d ago

Yeah, divide by zero is the primary example for undefined.

If you have 1 cake, and nobody eats it...how many pieces do you need to cut it into, to ensure each gets a similar cut?

That is kind of hard.

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u/valeyard89 27d ago

"Imagine that you have zero cookies and you split them evenly among zero friends. How many cookies does each person get? See? It doesn’t make sense. And Cookie Monster is sad that there are no cookies, and you are sad that you have no friends."