I am here, right now at the time of writing this paste, in math class, and I'm here to tell you that 1/0 is NOT infinity! Here's why: 1/0 we have always called "undefined" or "infinity", but it is not true infinity. 1/0 as a slope is a vertical line forever going up. However, 1/0 is not infinity, it is a measurement of how many infinities there are specified. Think of it as this: 1/0 = alot of 0's. 1/0 is just an array of zeroes fitting into 1, so it is "one infinity". That would mean 2/0 is "two infinity" and so on. you could also think of it as lim 0 -> y or lim infinity -> y . Using it as a limit, it limits the number of zeroes. All 1/0 is, is an improper fraction that is "undefined", but logically it makes perfect sense, so why did they name it undefined? It's just not practical! You can have an array of one right? so basically 4/0 is infinity[4]. If we put this in a matrix it would be: inf:= infinity [inf inf] [inf inf] etc [inf inf inf] [inf inf inf] [inf inf inf]
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