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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Complex numbers do exist – we just didn’t understand them and didn’t have a way to describe them. It isn’t right to say that imaginary numbers can’t exist without i. Rather, i is the letter we use to describe those numbers.

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