eli5: Why haven’t mathematicians invented a symbol for x/0 like they have pi and imaginary numbers?
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The elementary branch of mathematics dealing with infinities would likely be Set Theory. Putting a symbol doesn’t mean anything until there are properties and rules defined how to use it and the kind of problems that it helps solve or areas of exploration it helps to illuminate.
At this point x/0 is just not useful. There are already established approaches to infinities and x/0 is a fairly narrow, non useful construct.
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