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by legosexmagic 1164 days ago
both of these are reasonable. if you have an `x` such that `x + n = x` implies that `n = 0`. (assuming x still has an additive inverse) in other words you just invented modular arithmetic which is a very reasonable thing to invent.

1/0 is maybe a bit trickier and leads you to invent projective spaces.