As a layperson who is interested in math, imaginary numbers always fascinated me. Like in the real world you taking the square of a negative makes no sense whatso ever, but in theoretical math you can just invent new imaginary numbers, make it so that *i*^2 = -1 and suddenly you have just revolutionized math. If this is useful, why can’t you break other rules and account for them with new imaginary symbols?
So let’s pretend that we call them made up numbers and use *m* to represent them. Why is *m*=1/0 impossible when something like *i*^2 = -1 is not?
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Functionally, any number divided by zero = infinity.
You’ll notice that by dividing a number by anything less than one, you get a larger result, with the closer the denominator to zero, the larger the result.
So as you approach zero, the result of any number divided by that increases exponentially, to the point where it becomes essentially infinity. Which is as much a nonsense mathematical term as *i*, as it is a term that you can’t use in any equation in a similar way to zero without essentially making the whole equation meaningless.
A + 0 = A
A + (infinity) = infinity
A x 0 = 0
A x (infinity) = infinity
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