eli5: Why haven’t mathematicians invented a symbol for x/0 like they have pi and imaginary numbers?

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eli5: Why haven’t mathematicians invented a symbol for x/0 like they have pi and imaginary numbers?

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As an addition of the already mentioned points if you construct a modulo ring with a non prime, you can have the product of two numbers which gives 0. E.g. For Z_6 you can have 2*3=0 since 2*3 =6 mod 6 =0.

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