Why can’t you invent an imaginary number for division by zero like you can for a square root of a negative?

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Why can’t you invent an imaginary number for division by zero like you can for a square root of a negative?

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To put it in non-math terms. Take a pizza and slice it up into 8 pieces. You divided it by 8 and every piece is 1/8th of the whole. But if you divided it into zero pieces, there are no pieces at all, the pizza can’t exist if there are zero pieces. The result can’t be represented by anything because it no longer exists.

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