I just came across this wonderfully clear explanation of division by zero.
It also gives a nice introduction to the ideas of undefined (‘leads to a contradiction’) and indeterminate (‘is true for any value of x’).
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A former Chartered Engineer and Chartered Mathematician, Patrick has worked in management consultancies and high-tech startups, and in academia as a postdoc in Applied Mathematics at Cambridge and a maths lecturer at De Montfort University.
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