The other comments are correct: is undefined. Similarly, the limit of as approaches is also undefined. However, if you take the limit of as approaches zero from the left or from the right, you get negative and positive infinity respectively.

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Reddit
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r/learnmath on Reddit: Why do we say 1/0=undefined instead of 1/0=infinity?
October 24, 2020 -

Like 10/2- imagine a 10 square foot box, saying 10 divided by 2 is like saying “how many 2 square foot boxes fit in this 10 square foot box?” So the answer is 5.

But if you take the same box and ask “how many boxes that are infinitely small, or zero feet squared, can fit in the same box the answer would be infinity not “undefined”. So 10/0=infinity.

I understand why 2/0 can’t be 0 not only because that doesn’t make and since but also because it could cause terrible contradictions like 1=2 and such.

Ah math is so cool. I love infinity so if anyone wants to talk about it drop a comment.

Edit: thanks everyone so much for the answers. Keep leaving comments though because I’m really enjoying seeing it explained in different ways. Also it doesn’t seem like anyone else has ever been confused by this judging by the comment but if anyone is I really liked this video https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:foundation-algebra/x2f8bb11595b61c86:division-zero/v/why-dividing-by-zero-is-undefined

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Medium
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Why is any number over 0 undefined or what we say infinity? | by Prabhat Mahato | Medium
March 31, 2023 - 1/1=1, 1/0.1=10, 1/0.01=100, 1/0.001=1000, 1/0.0001=10000 Here, the value of the expression goes on increasing when we decrease the value of denominator. So, when the value of denominator tends to or equals to zero, then the value of the expression tends to or becomes so large that we cannot find it’s bound or in others it becomes infinity i.e., 1/0=∞.
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Physics Forums
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Why 1 / ∞ = 0 but ∞ * 0 is not equal to 1? • Physics Forums
December 20, 2021 - The discussion also reflects varying ... = c, then a = b*c and b = a/c Therefore if 1/ ∞ = 0, ∞ * 0 should be equal to 1 and 1/0 = ∞...
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Math Central
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1/infinity and 1/0
Question: I was thinking the other day when i was in math class that when you divide 1 by say n you'll get 1/n. As the value of n increases the smaller the number you get. So if you divide 1/infinity would that equal zero? And if that is true then would 1/0=infinity be true also · Your observation ...
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Justin Skycak
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Q&A: Undefined versus Infinity - Justin Skycak
December 2, 2023 - Sure, if you consider 1/something, where “something” is a tiny positive number, then 1/something approaches infinity as “something” approaches 0. But that’s not the same as 1/0. That’s the limit of 1/x as x approaches 0 from the positive side.
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Wikipedia
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Zero one infinity rule - Wikipedia
December 1, 2024 - 1 – Each subdirectory has exactly ... directories at all). Infinity – Each directory, whether the topmost directory or any of its subdirectories, according to the file system's rules, may contain any number of files or subdirectories....
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Quora
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Does 0 * infinity =1? - Quora
Answer (1 of 6): Well , 0*(infinity) is indeterminate simply by definition. Infinity is a tricky expression and needs to be handled carefully. See Indeterminate -- from Wolfram MathWorld.
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Why do some people say that 1/0 is undefined while other people say it is infinity? Which side of this endless debate is right? - Quora
You can think that this is the same thing as before, but now we declare that the positive infinity and the negative infinity are the same (now our interval becomes a circle). We lose something by doing this, but we also gain something.
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Real numbers can be positive or negative, and include the number zero. They are called real numbers because they are not imaginary, which is a different system of numbers. https://www.livescience.com/42619-real-numbers.html
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Well, in my opinion this question is partly a mathematical question and partly a phylosophical question. In physics the notion t=0 defines an initial condition in a problem (often a condition to ensure that the problem is mathematically well posed), not the initial time zero. Better is the notation t0 as initial time. Using the Newton laws the time can have eithetr a forward or a backward direction and the point of inversion is somehow the "zero" time. Some points: Zero can be both a value of a variable and both something that assesses the "absence" of something. And "zero" and "infinity" are correlated each other. However, in the physics where the mathematic acts by means of the differential equations to describe a problem, we usually have a fundamental assumption "the continuum hypothesis". It is assumed that a variable in a point is actually the value of the average over a portion of space very small but finite, not zero. Finally, in the computers we have a finite register and the number zero is both an integer value when the variable is declared and a real number at a certain precision. In such case, for example in double precision, you can get what you wrote, 0.000 ...1 is the zero approximated by the round-off. There are many other examples that scientist from the mathematics and physics can explain better.
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r/learnmath on Reddit: why does 1/infinity = 0 rather than 0.0 repeating leading to 1?
June 3, 2024 -

sorry if the question doesnt make sense i havent been invested in math theory for long as ive only taken alg 2 and minor precalc but why is it that one over infinity equals zero rather than an infinitely small finite number? from my thoughts i feel as if it cant be zero because if you have anumerator there is a value no matter the size of a denominator, almost like an asymptotic relationship with the value reaching closer to zero but never hitting it. i understand zero is a concept so you cant operate with it so you cant exactly create a proof algebraicly but then how could you know it equals zero? just need second thoughts as its a comment debate between me and my brother. many thanks!

edit: my bad i wasnt very misunderstood on alot of things and the question was pretty dumb in hindsight, my apologies

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If the zeros are repeating there is no end, therefore there is no 1 at the end because there is no end to begin with
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Part of the problem is that 1/infinity is actually very hard to define, because "let's treat infinity as a number!" usually leads to strange situations. Like for example, what's infinity + 1? Is it still infinity? Does that mean, if we "subtract infinity" from both sides, that 1 = 0? What is infinity - infinity, anyway? One way people get around this is to use limits. Say, instead of 1 / infinity, you have 1/x. This is a function. Then we might (depending on the function) be able to ask, "what happens as we keep increasing the value of x?" People phrase this sometimes as "what happens when x 'goes to infinity'?", but what they really mean is, "what happens when we make x an arbitrarily large number, and then an even larger one, and so on?" Then people ask, "as x gets larger and larger, does the value of 1/x approach anything in particular? Does it become closer and closer to some exact value? Does it converge?" Answering this kind of question is actually much more doable than trying to figure out "what is 1 / infinity?" because, instead of having to figure out how to do division by infinity (something which does not really have a concrete definition), we're just dealing with a finite number, x. To answer the question though, what we see as x gets bigger and bigger is that 1/x does actually converge on one specific value! That value is 0. Note that 1/x is never actually equal to 0 — it just approaches it. It gets closer, and closer, and closer. People do sometimes write this as "1 / infinity = 0". But I think it would be fair to say that, when people write it this way, that can be... very misleading, depending on the reader.
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Is 1/infinity equal to 0? - Quora
Answer (1 of 93): Not immediately, no. It is equal to an unknown, infinitesimally decimated integer, the resolution and granularity of which depend upon the context and concepts involved. That said, zero doesn't mean, “nothing”, it means, “none”, which means, “not one”. So zero can easily be use...
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Wikipedia
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Division by infinity - Wikipedia
January 6, 2026 - In mathematics, division by infinity is division where the divisor (denominator) is infinity. In ordinary arithmetic, this does not have a well-defined meaning, since ∞ is a mathematical concept that does not correspond to a specific number, ...
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Is 1/ (infinity^infinity) equal to 0? If so, in what special cases? - Quora
Answer (1 of 2): This is barely a different question from asking whether 1/infinity equals 0. Clearly, if infinity^infinity means anything, it has to mean something infinite, and (if this is meaningful at all) at least as large as infinity, ...
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1/0 = infinite is explained | Breaking the rules of Mathematics. - YouTube
Have you ever wondered why 1 divided by 0 equals infinity? In this video, we will explain the reasoning behind this common mathematical phenomenon.In general...
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