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Infinity Eyes

March 9, 2018

A friend's infinity-sign pupils give away that they're about to talk about dividing by zero.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-03-09-infinity-eyes/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

A: "Uh-oh. You've been thinking about infinity again." B: "What makes you say that?"

A: "You've got that creepy look in your eye." B (with ∞-shaped pupils): "Well, since you bring it up, suppose I divide 1 by 0..."

Topics
Sets & Infinity › InfinityNumber & Arithmetic › Division by ZeroNumber & Arithmetic › Zero
Level
Middle SchoolHigh School
Themes
MathematiciansCommon Mistakes