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One intuition could be: As you divide 1 by negative numbers of smaller and smaller magnitude, you get negative numbers of increasing magnitude. At 0, the positive infinity of 1/0 is met by the negative infinity of 1/-0 and their average is 0.


why take averages?


Well, it would be simultaneously at both extremes.




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