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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It approaches positive and negative infinity, depending on the sign of the denominator. The result must not be two different numbers at once, so dividing by zero cannot be defined.

There are other reasons, too, but I forgot about them.