Why 1 / 0 = infinity?

Answer 1

Bipin Tatkare carrying on what you have understand till now the one object is 100 and the other is 0 so you are saying 100/0=100 but thats not the way it calculated just imagine you have to do like this
100/0.5=1000/5=200
100/0.4=1000/4=250
100/0.3=1000/3=333.33
100/0.2=1000/2=500
100=0.1=1000/1=1000
100/0.00001=100000000/1
So this type when denominator number is small it gives larger the result so 100/0 or any number divide by 0 is tends to infinite or undefined big value

Answer 2

1/(exact 0) is undefined & infinity is not a number , its a notion [in math]

Answer 3

Copied my post from the thread linked by Mbrustler :

See it as a limit, not as number.
1/0.1 = 10
1/0.01 = 100
1/0.001 = 1000
1/0.000..01 = extremely big
And since a computer cannot represent ifinitely many digits, 0.000...01 is basically zero and similar the extremely big number is "infinity"

Answer 4

Bipin Tatkare Seeing your problem was already resolved it would be great if you can mark the answer that you find useful to encourage the community to help each other out. 😉

Answer 5

this could answer your question

https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/1575402/?ref=app

Answer 6

If i am not wrong, then you consider two objects which values are 100 and 20. Ok! Then you have to divide the object which value is 100 by the 20 valued object. Ok, then object of 20 will divide object of 100 in 5 parts. Ok! Now, let the two objectz of 100 and 0, if 0 valued object will going to divide this object, then it will not going to be divided by anypart. It remain as it is! So, why the value should not be 100?

Answer 7

Ok!

Answer 8

2*3=6 and 6*0.5=3
So after multiplying by 2, you need to multiply by 0.5 or 1/2 to get back to the original number
But 0 has no number where this is possible, so you can't multiply by 0, infinity is an approximation of X/0