Why can’t you divide by zero?

In the world of maths, many strange results are possible when we change the rules. But there’s one rule that most of us have been warned not to break: don’t divide by zero. How can the simple combination of an everyday number and a basic operation cause such problems? Find out more in the Ted-Ed animation below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKmGVE85GUU