Question 31131
no idea of the real reasons either philosophically or mathematically, but it says "how many times does nothing go into the number n?".


The answer is plainly not zero times. Neither is it another number of times. We just do not know, since we have no information on the number of times to split n. Hence, the answer is an infinite number of ways, since we just do not know.


Also, look at 10/1 -> answer is 10
now look at 10/0.1 --> answer is 100
now look at 10/0.01 --> answer is 1000
etc


so, as the denominator gets closer and closer to zero, so the answer increases and increases. The limit would be "as the denominator tends towards zero, so the answer tends towards infinity"


Hope this helps


jon.